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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The John Lancaster Collections of Australian Trade Exhibitions
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2016 ~ 1pm
• Lot #:
  437
• Lot Description:
  CERTIFICATE, "First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, 1907"
  Second Class Diploma awarded to Miss A.M.E. Bale for Figure Study in Black & White, window mounted, overall 57x47cm.
• Notes:
  Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1875-1955), artist, was born on 11 November 1875 at Richmond, Victoria, only child of William Mountier Bale (1851-1940), naturalist and inspector of customs, and his wife Marian, nŽe Adams (d.1915).Alice Bale was enrolled at the Gallery School in 1895, where in the course of her studies she won 9 major prizes and in 1902 was a strong contender for the travelling scholarship; she attended for 2 more years but did not compete for prizes. She became noted for her paintings of flowers; Bernard Hall held her work in high regard and a print of her 'Scabiosa' (purchased 1922) was for years one of the few available coloured reproductions of pictures in the National Gallery of Victoria. Her landscapes and interiors were mostly painted at Castlemaine, where she had a house and studio, and at Kew; she never left Victoria. Miss Bale became a consistent and respected exhibitor with the Women's Art Club (later the Melbourne Society of Women Painters), and she edited the journal of the Victorian Artists' Society from 5 March 1918 until its last issue in February 1919. Two of her paintings were in the 1923 exhibition of Australian art in London. In 1933 her group portrait, 'Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hampel', was hung at the Royal Academy and her 'Portrait of a lady' was exhibited at the Salon of 1939 in Paris. She also exhibited with The Half Dozen Group of Artists in Brisbane in 1943-48 and in 1946 painted a commissioned portrait of Major General Vasey for the Australian War Memorial.Her portrait by William Rowell is in the Castlemaine Art Gallery where there are seven of her paintings; others are at Walpole Street and in public collections in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Ballarat and Mildura.
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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