Charles Blackman 'Jack's Beanstalk' Colour:Black rose and brick thatch together

rose and brick thatch together to recall that personal history always intersects with the histories of the land and its people

Signed: signed CHARLES BLACKMAN in margin BIRD BOY AND BOTTLEBRUSH

The medium’s roguish sensibility is reiterated by Duchamp’s title

reading and learning

Charles Blackman 'Jack's Beanstalk' Colour:Black rose and brick thatch togetherRevered Australian artist Charles Blackman, held a lifelong adoration for storytelling. In this exquisite etching of which an edition is represented at the National Gallery of Australia he takes on Jack and the Beanstalk, in which a poverty stricken farm boy plants magic beans to reach a giants castle. In Jacks Beanstalk, Blackman halts the story at a precipice of wonder. Represented by a single hand, Jack gingerly clasps a sprout, that in comparison