Title
The nightmare (after Fuseli)
(1977)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Fuseli nightmare
- Date
- (1977)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil, synthetic polymer paint, charcoal on canvas
- Dimensions
- 171.4 x 211.4 cm stretcher; 180.8 x 221.4 x 4.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, red oil "BLACKMAN". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 208.1978
- Copyright
- © Estate of Charles Blackman/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Charles Blackman
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
CHARLES BLACKMAN - Schoolgirls and Angels, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 18 May 1993–22 Aug 1993
CHARLES BLACKMAN - Schoolgirls and Angels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
CHARLES BLACKMAN - Schoolgirls and Angels, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 07 Dec 1993–27 Jan 1994
CHARLES BLACKMAN - Schoolgirls and Angels, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 16 Feb 1994–04 Apr 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman: the lost domains, 'Nightmares', chapter 9, Sydney, 1980, 118 (colour illus.), 120, 144. plate no. 9.1, titled 'Fuseli nightmare'
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Barry Pearce, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Australian Art', pg. 5-26, Sydney, 1981, 9 (illus.). cat.no. 4
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Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: schoolgirls and angels: a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman, Melbourne, 1993, 117 (colour illus.).
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Natalie Wilson, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Melbourne: realisms and mythologies', pg. 163-164, Sydney, 2000, 184 (colour illus.), 300.
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