Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural Brack’s gymnast is captured with

Brack’s gymnast is captured with a melancholic distance – stripped of identifying features

In this early soft-ground etching

despite being mere paint and cloth

A sense of foreboding perculates

Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1965

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural Brack’s gymnast is captured withButterflies 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