Lot 12

In good condition with no visible signs of repair or damage, minor abrasions to edges and lower right corner, some spots likely surface dirt in areas.


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The National Australia Bank Art Collection

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

Lindsay, R. (ed.), "The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 6, p. 19 (illus.)
"Brand Street Boogie" 1975 is, as the title implies, inspired by the series of abstract geometric paintings by Piet Mondrian especially "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" 1942-43 painted in America and based on Mondrian's 'neo plasticism' view of the bright lights of America's theatrical heart - Broadway. The influence of American Hard-edge Colourfield paintings of the 1960s by artists such as Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella is also to be seen in Balyck's painting in the crisp abutting bands of colour, however he has created a more complex patterning than that of the American Colourfield painters by introducing tonal bands and overlapping areas which conflict with the concern for flat surface and pure colour."
(excerpt, p. 19)