Published: August 19, 2018
The Melbourne painter – a member of ‘the Antipodeans’ group, best known for his Schoolgirl and Alice in Wonderland series – died on Monday morning
Australian artist Charles Blackman has died just days after his 90th birthday, after a long struggle with dementia.
Blackman, most famous for his Schoolgirl drawings and Alice in Wonderland series of paintings, died at 5:30am Monday morning according to his son, Auguste Blackman. “Charles painted our dreams,” Auguste Blackman told the Australian. “The dream of his life was the dream of all our lives.”
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