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Details
- Date
- 1965
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph on cream wove paper
- Edition
- 1/10
- Dimensions
- 36.6 x 52.6 cm sheet; 38.5 x 54.2 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil " 'BALL '65'' ".
- Credit
- Gift of Lynne Eastaway 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 257.2018
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sydney Ball. Courtesy Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
- Artist information
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Sydney Ball
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About
Sydney Ball was among the most significant Australian abstractionists of the mid - late 20th century. His early study and influences in Adelaide were challenged by his exposure to American Abstract Expressionist painting in New York, where he lived from 1963-65 and 1969-71. During this time Ball studied lithography with Harry Sternberg (American, 1904-2001) and painting with Abstract expressionist Theodoros Stamos (1922-97) at the Art Students League, New York.
Ball's American experience had a profound influence on his work; his was a central inclusion in the landmark NGV exhibition of Australian abstraction 'The Field' in 1968, and his work had a strong influence on a generation of younger painters who shared his interest in Greenberg-ian abstraction.
The ‘Canto’ prints were made by the artist while living and working in New York in the 1960s as an investigation into hard edge colour, and symmetric form, a preoccupation for a number of his American contemporaries. The title comes from the ‘Cantos’ poems by Ezra Pound.
