Going Home

Details

CHARLES BLACKMAN (b. 1928)
Going Home
signed 'BLACKMAN' (lower left)
oil and enamel on board
85.4 x 89.5 cm

Provenance

The Artist
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

F St J Moore, Charles Blackman/Schoolgirls and Angels/A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings/and Drawings by Charles Blackman, Melbourne, 1993, illus. p.30

Exhibited

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Brisbane, City Hall Art Gallery; Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels, 18 May 1993 - 4 April 1994, cat. no. 1
Benalla, Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Charles Blackman: Watching from the Window, 27 March - 6 April 1995, cat. no. 1
Sydney, Sir Herman Black Gallery, The University of Sydney Union, Charles Blackman Testimonial Dinner, 23 November 1995
Sydney, Sir Herman Black Gallery, The University of Sydney Union, A Homage to Charles Blackman OBE, August 1998, cat.no. 1

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Going Home was painted when the artist was twenty-two years of age and is one of the earliest known extant works by Blackman. Painted at his mother's house in the Sydney suburb of Harbord, the young woman in the painting has been identified as Barbara Patterson, whom Blackman was to marry the following year. The influence of Cezanne upon Blackman is apparent in this work, particularly in his handling of the landscape.

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