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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Melbourne
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Australia
- Date
- 1964
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, printed in black ink on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 1/10
- Dimensions
- 29.7 x 30.2 cm platemark; 56.9 x 37.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "G Baldessin 64".
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA10.1965
- Copyright
- © Estate of George Baldessin
- Artist information
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George Baldessin
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About
George Baldessin was one of a select number of Australian sculptors and printmakers notable for their inventiveness, influence and prolific output. After studying in London, then Milan, where he came under the tutelage of Marino Marini, he became influential as a teacher in Melbourne in the 1960s and 70s, unconstrained by tradition and refusing to become overly consumed by technique. His distinctive visual vocabulary of elegant, distorted figures in fluid, abstract space developed from early images of circus performers and later came to embrace nudes, urban imagery and a personal iconography of objects such as fruit, banquet tables and windows.
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Where the work was made
Melbourne
