Lot 25

This work is in excellent condition with no faults to report
Paper is fresh
Colours are vibrant and fresh
Paper has not been glued down
well framed and ready to hang


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This series of screenprints revisits Sydney Ball's ongoing 'Canto' paintings, drawings and prints, which he first developed in the mid-1960s while living and working in New York. The motif of hard-edged geometric forms and vibrant colours came from his experience of hard edge and colour field painting in America and his own investigations into the formal relationships between colour and symmetry; in 1968 he was quoted in an article by Laurie Thomas that he had been '…developing colour ideas and theories – the relationships of colour and investigations into spatial relationships – and became involved with the circle as a symbol of infinity' ('An artist fascinated by colour and space' The Australian 28 September 1968).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Ball

Courtesy the Estate of Sydney Ball and Sullivan+Strumpf