Charles Blackman 'Quartette, from Girls and Flowers Portfolio' printmaking 'Musician Playing Lute'

'Musician Playing Lute'

Boyd personifies it as an almost alien

an anonymous hand reaching from its core

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Image Size: 86 x 56 cm

Charles Blackman 'Quartette, from Girls and Flowers Portfolio' printmaking 'Musician Playing Lute'From the revered Girls and Flowers Portfolio, this work is quintessential Charles Blackman. It is evocative and mysterious a vestige of feeling over exactness. Quartette is a story told in four parts. The first panel sees three girls fold together; the second, reminiscent of Prone Schoolgirl, sees a girl lying face down on the ground; the third is of a flying ghost and the fourth, another girl bent over a flower. Fluent in the language of emotion,