Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Moon' women artists 'Paris with half an apple

'Paris with half an apple

sinuous branches of the gum trees and clouds of leaves met atop a walking path - beckoning one through the unusual Australian bush

In ‘Hiding’

Signed: Signed lower right: Joyce Evans

‘Barbara’ is a monotype

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Moon' women artists 'Paris with half an appleButterflies 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