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An image of Tension by Earle Backen

Earle Backen

(Australia 01 Sep 1927–03 Oct 2005)

Title
Tension
Year
1959
Media category
Print
Materials used
colour etching, aquatint, engraving, brown, yellow and blue ink on ivory Arches paper
Edition
Artist's proof C
Dimensions

39.3 x 59.1cm platemark; 29.8 x 46.6cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "E. I. Backen 1959".
Credit
Gift of the New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship Committee 1961
Accession number
DA10.1961
Copyright
© AGNSW
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history (2)

Earle Backen (1961), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Apr 1961 -

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962