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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Pagewood
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1959
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 137.0 x 137.0 cm board; 140.4 x 140.4 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, orange synthetic polymer paint "R Balson/ 59".
- Credit
- Purchased 1960
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OA1.1960
- Copyright
- © Ralph Balson Estate
- Artist information
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Ralph Balson
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About
I have long held the belief that the arts of man are his expression in terms of a particular medium of his concept of the universe…
The concept of relativity, the vision of it I get as a painter fascinates me. A Universe without beginning, without end. A continuous creating, destroying, and expanding movement, its one constant the speed of light. (The Space Age). …
I can realize that the energy, the atoms that reach us from the sun is the source, the rhythm of existence, and the very narrow band, the spectrum, is all we can ever hope to have to try and reach a small amount of the rhythm and relativity of the universe with the substance of paint.
Ralph Balson, 1960
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Exhibition history
Shown in 9 exhibitions
Ralph Balson (1960), Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 13 Jan 1960–27 Jan 1960
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Jun 1961–Jul 1961
Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Oct 1966–30 Oct 1966
Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 09 Nov 1966–11 Dec 1966
Project 41: The mosaic -The grid (1983), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Mar 1983–24 Apr 1983
Ralph Balson: a retrospective, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 15 Aug 1989–24 Sep 1989
Ralph Balson: a retrospective, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 06 Oct 1989–19 Nov 1989
Ralph Balson: a retrospective, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, 01 Dec 1989–28 Jan 1990
Ralph Balson: a retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Feb 1990–01 Apr 1990
Ralph Balson: a retrospective, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 12 Apr 1990–24 May 1990
New Directions 1952-1962, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 08 Feb 1991–24 Mar 1991
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 05 Oct 2011–27 Nov 2011
Australian modern masterpieces from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 10 Dec 2011–04 Mar 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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Bruce Adams, Ralph Balson A Retrospective, Bulleen, Jul 1989, 33, 82 (colour illus.), 88. cat.no. 50
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 107 (colour illus.).
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David Aspden, The Art Gallery of New South Wales today, 'Ralph Balson: Painting no. 9. Artist's choice no. 20', pg. 94-95, Sydney, 1983, 94, 95 (colour illus.).
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David Aspden, Artist's choice: five decades of artists' writing, '1984: Ralph Balson', pg. 34, Australia, 2016, 34, 35 (colour illus.), 179.
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Gary Catalano, The years of hope: Australian art and criticism 1959-1968, 'Internationalism', pg. 22-36, Melbourne, 1981, 33 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Moderns', pg. 103-104, Sydney, 2000, 128 (colour illus.), 300.
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Christine France, New Directions 1952-1962, 'New directions 1952-1962', pg. 7-19, Sydney, 1991, 43. cat.no. 52; this work is NOT reproduced on page 27 - the work reproduced is cat.no. 28 'Abstract', Acc.# 125.1980
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Bruce James, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Milking works for a moment in the sun', pg. 13, Sydney, 03 Apr 2002, 13. Review of 'Parallel Visions' exhibition
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Paul McGillick, Aspect: Art and Literature, 'The importance of Ralph Balson', pg. 4-17, Mona Vale, Winter 1981, 11 (illus.), 16.
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Jane Somerville, Look, 'Ralph Balson: abstract but more truly real with life', pg. 20-22, Sydney, Nov 2006, 20 (colour illus.), 21.
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Whitechapel Art Gallery (Compilator), Recent Australian Painting, 'Catalogue', pg. 22-28, London, 1961, 22, n. pag (b&w illus.). cat.no. 1, plate XX
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Natalie Wilson, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Grace Crowley / Ralph Balson / Frank Hinder / Margel Hinder', pg. 88-103, Sydney, 2002, 96, 97 (colour illus.), 142, 147.
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Project 41 - the mosaic, the grid, Sydney, 1983. cat.no. 9
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