MATTER PAINTING (PAINTING NO. 8), 1960
RALPH BALSON
enamel on composition board
66.0 x 61.0 cm
signed lower right: R. Balson
bears certificate of authenticity from Gallery A verso
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
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
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