Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Eyes' printmaking monotype on paper

monotype on paper

Six monochrome lithographs with title page in presentation box

monkeys too are a reminder that humour and delight are not confined to the human experience

This is a metaphor for the European colonisation of Aboriginal peoples: “Even the gift of flowers can be treacherous”

For collectors of prints and still life art

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Eyes' printmaking monotype on paperButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the