CHARLES BLACKMAN
born 1928

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

CHARLES BLACKMAN

born 1928
Tryst 1959

oil on composition board
signed and dated 'BLACKMAN / 59' upper right
122 x 91.5 cm

• Lot Sold $330,000 (Hammer Price)
• $402,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Professor and Mrs David Armstrong, Sydney, by September 1959
Private Collection, Sydney
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Antipodeans, Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne, 4-15 August 1959, no. 3, 150 gns
The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September 1959, no. 3
The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Arts, Melbourne, 17 October - 4 November 1988, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 12 November - 11 December 1988, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 December 1988 - 27 January 1989, no. 4, 'Tryst II', illustrated

Literature

Alan Warren, 'Challenge by Art Group', The Sun, Melbourne, 4 August 1959, p. 30
Alan McCulloch, 'Battle Cry of Antipodeans', The Herald, Melbourne, 5 August 1959
Franz Philipp, 'Antipodeans Aweigh', Nation, Sydney, 29 August 1959, p. 18
John Reed, New Painting 1952-62, Longmans, Melbourne, 1963, p. 20 (illustrated)
Ray Mathew, Charles Blackman, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1965, p. 15, 'Tryst II'
Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman: The Lost Domains, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1980, pp. 34 (illustrated), 37 (illustrated), 142
Deborah Haycraft, 'The Making of a Manifesto', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 1988, p. 288 (illustrated)
Thomas Shapcott, The Art of Charles Blackman, Andre Deutsch, London, 1989, plate 75, pp. 29, 141, 253, 'Tryst II'