Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural Signed: Signed and dated lower

Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1965

Brack’s gymnast is captured with a melancholic distance – stripped of identifying features

titled lower centre: … I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles…

titled and initialed 'CB' in margin

Szilagyi glides down a river at night — sky and water slicked together

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural Signed: Signed and dated lowerButterflies 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