Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Balancing Children' cool tones For collectors of European prints

For collectors of European prints and landscapes

'Alice the First-class marksman' 2024

in which she won the People’s Choice Award in 1995

'Amapondo 13' 2014

Image Size: 42 x 27 cm

Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Balancing Children' cool tones For collectors of European printsBalancing artfully on the top of giants, Philippe Le Mieres composition merges two iconic depictions of children from Australian art history. The first is Charles Blackmans Children Playing (1953), an entry into his revered Schoolgirls series. Dreaming, elusive and fearful, Blackmans schoolgirls were caught haunting deserted playgrounds, alleyways and streets, shrouded beneath large hats. They were symbols of an innocence made precarious in the wake