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

Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1965

Image Size: 111 x 74 cm

Le Miere’s rendition intertwines these stories

titled and signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower margin

titled and initialed 'CB' in margin

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