Charles Blackman 'Alice on the Table' fantastical Bird and Bottlebrush' 1998

Bird and Bottlebrush' 1998

Image Size: 75 x 75 cm

'Pastel Pyramid (2D Pyramid)'

receiving divine inspiration from the mysterious hand

and signed in pencil in margin below image: The Nest 83/250 Kleinholz

Charles Blackman 'Alice on the Table' fantastical Bird and Bottlebrush' 1998This work by Charles Blackman, is among the richest examples from his Alice series. Derived from 1956 painting, 'Alice on the Table' is inspired by Blackman's then wife Barbara, whose eyesight was ailing. Nestled between a concerned rabbit (believed to represent the artist) and a swelling bouquet, Alice is left to navigate an increasingly disorientating world. At once eternally romantic and melancholic, this luminous work breathes new life into the