Charles Blackman 'Girl with Flowers' the field revisited everyday utensils like lamps are

everyday utensils like lamps are symbolic of the Jewish refugee’s plight

'Happy Birthday to Me'

'Figures in the Window 1956' Ca 1980s

Dimensions: 36 x 32 cm

aquatint etching on paper

Charles Blackman 'Girl with Flowers' the field revisited everyday utensils like lamps areGirl with Flowers features two of Charles Blackman's most iconic symbols girls and flowers. This combination is so quintessential in fact, that it has been identified as commandingly and decisively Blackman , with one critic commenting that his flowers often seem like floral souls. Never mere decoration, his works excavate the breadth of human feeling. Here, from the 1960 painting, Blackman places heartbreak alongside hope. One of Australia s most