Charles Blackman (1928 - 2018) is one of the most

celebrated Australian figurative artists of the 20th

century.

An excellent draughtsman as well as a painter, he

created imagery – often in series – based on

personal, literary and musical themes. He came to

prominence after the Second World War as one of

the so-called ‘Heide circle’ of artists and was also a

founding member of The Antipodeans art

movement.