Lot 22

Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

Australian Print Survey, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (travelling), 1963 - 1964 (another impression)
George Baldessin: Sculpture and Etchings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 August - 18 September 1983 (another impression)

Lindsay, R., Holloway, M., George Baldessin: Sculpture and Etchings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983, cat. no. 1, pp. 40, 41 (illus. another impression)
"Trapeze 1963 was etched in Milan while Baldessin was attending the Brera Academy, after leaving London where he, like (Fred) Williams, had attended the Chelsea School of Art. Trapeze was Baldessin's first print to be publicly shown, in the touring exhibition 'Australian Print Survey' of 1963-64. It was the first etching seen by Tate Adams who, impressed by young Baldessin, offered him a part-time lectureship in the RMIT print department of which Adams had been appointed Head in 1960. The etching plate, inked and varnished, was later hung on the wall of the Crossley Gallery." (Robert Lindsay p. 40)

RELATED WORK:
George Baldessin, Trapeze 1965, cast bronze, synthetic polymer paint, edition of 4, the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.