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PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘Lure of the Sun: Charles Blackman in Queensland’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at QAG, Brisbane, Australia, 7 November 2015 – 31 January 2016. Curator: Michael Hawker, Associate Curator, Australian Art © Queensland Art Gallery, 2015 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Requests and inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by the authors and QAGOMA. Copyright in all art works and images is held by the creators or their representatives, unless otherwise stated. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. Copyright in works by Charles Blackman is administered by Viscopy, Sydney. Every endeavour has been made to obtain permissions from the copyright owners; inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION ENTRY Creator: Blackman, Charles, artist. Title: Lure of the sun : Charles Blackman in Queensland / Michael Hawker, Michele Helmrich. ISBN: 9781921503764 (hardback) Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Blackman, Charles, 1928---Exhibitions. Queensland Art Gallery--Exhibitions. Painters--Australia--20th century--Exhibitions. Artists--Australia--20th century--Exhibitions. Queensland -- In art. Other Creators/Contributors: Hawker, Michael. Helmrich, Michele. Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.) Dewey Number: 759.994 NOTES ON THE PUBLICATION Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parenthesis. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the digital files of the original works. Typeset in Flama, IM FELL English PRO, and Montserrat. Image colour adjustment and prepress by ColourChiefs, Brisbane. Printed by The Australian Book Connection, China. COVER: The bouquet (detail) 1961 Oil and enamel on composition board / 120.5 x 56cm / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery PAGES 1 & 104: Starsigns (detail) 1984–85 Oil on canvas / 183 x 241cm (diptych, overall) / Private collection, Ipswich / Photograph: Carl Warner TITLE PAGE: Moreton Bay (detail) 1975 Oil on board / 48 x 73cm / Courtesy: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane / Photograph: Carl Warner CONTENTS PAGE: Round the mountain and across the field (detail) c.1978 Charcoal / 151 x 181cm / Courtesy: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane / Photograph: Carl Warner PAGES 88–9: The family c.1955 Oil and enamel on masonite / 91 x 122cm / Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra PAGES 100–01 : Greg Weight / Australia b.1946 / Portrait of Charles Blackman 1992 / Silver gelatin on fibre-based paper / 50.4 x 40.5cm / Collection: National Library of Australia, Canberra / © Greg Weight / Image courtesy: National Library of Australia