Charles Blackman 'Chain Butterfly' black & white

Charles Blackman 'Chain Butterfly' black & whiteButterflies 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

intelligent

touched by the artist’s knack for imitating life

life just fings through your slippers’ is a jewel for admirers of Leunig

Image is in excellent condition apart from small pin holes in outer of each margin

but remains relevant today

Signed: Numbered and signed 'Jacks' in margin

Miro and Dali

These configurations – elegant and stylish – recall Australia’s lineage of boundary-pushing female printmakers Margaret Preston

Michael CLEARY

in 1970–71

it is a dance of juxtapositions - childhood and maternity

Beneath his whimsy is always searing social commentary