Robert Hughes 'Self Portrait' women artists Charles Blackman

Charles Blackman

An exemplar of his work

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Haxton was the only female artist included in Australia’s delegation to China – an experience that perhaps inspired ‘Chinese Landscape’

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Robert Hughes 'Self Portrait' women artists Charles BlackmanBefore Robert Hughes became an internationally renowned art critic and writer, he was an artist. At twenty one, he had dropped out of an architecture and law degree at the University of Sydney to pursue art and despite no formal training became a Wynne Finalist in 1951, a Sulman Prize finalist in 1961 and in 1960, entered the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Self Portrait (1959) comes from this juncture in his life. It is an