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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  27 Jul 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  68
• Lot Description:
  Ralph Balson
  (1890 - 1964)
  Matter Painting (Painting No. 8), 1960
  enamel on composition board
  66.0 x 61.0 cm
  signed lower right: R. Balson; bears certificate of authenticity from Gallery A verso 
  EXHIBITED: "Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 – 30 October 1966 and touring to Newcastle City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 9 November – 11 December 1966, cat. 14 (as ‘Painting No. 8’); "Paintings by the Late Ralph Balson 1960 –64; The Third and Final Memorial Exhibition", Gallery A, Sydney, 27 May – 14 June 1969, cat. 9 (label attached verso); "Contemporary Art in Australia – A Review", Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, July – August 1987; "The Bus Collection of Australian Art", Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 43; "IMPACT", Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1 December 2012 – 21 April 2013; "Colour and Movement", Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria, 19 February – 9 June 2016; on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales.
• Provenance:
  Estate of the artist, Sydney; Gallery A, Sydney (label attached verso); Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane; "100 Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art", Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 June 1991, lot 44; The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above 
• References:
  Thomas, D., ‘Ralph Balson’," Art and Australia", Ure Smith, Sydney, vol. 2. no. 4, March 1965, p. 248 (illus.); "MOCA Open – Contemporary Art in Australia, A Review", Brisbane, 1987, p. 9 (illus.); Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., "The Cbus Collection of Australian Art", in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 15, 94 (illus.), 213
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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