Charles Blackman sawing a painting, c.1975

A$125 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Gelatin silver print photograph (copy print), 165 x 215 mm (sheet); verso in pencil ‘Essay ill. 10’; unmounted; fine condition. Literature: Artist makes a sawn-off political protest’, The Australian , Sydney, 22 November 1975, p.1 (illustrated) Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: S choolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.13 (illustrated) with caption ‘‘I love my country. Party policies are chopping it in half’. Note: The photograph shows Blackman sawing the painting Nude on a couch in half ‘in protest at his name being used for political purposes.’ Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The library of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018).

• Binding: Hardcover

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