Ralph Balson is credited with holding the first solo exhibition of purely abstract work in Australia, but his beginnings were very humble, as an apprentice plumber and house-painter in Dorset, England and he did not begin painting until his early thirties following his arrival in Australia in 1913. Becoming central to a group of modernist artists in Sydney from the early 1930s, Balson was excep…

Provenance

Provenance: Acquired by Sir Raymond Burrell, of Forglen and later Rosemount, Woollahra, Sydney, from Gallery A Sydney, on the advice of Chandler Coventry, Sydney. Bears Gallery A Sydney exhibition label to verso, Cat. No 15. Inscribed in pen: Owner Raymond Burrell Forglen Armidale NSW Artvisory Auction, The Contents of Rosemont, Woollahra, Property of Lady Margot Burrell, 5 June 2022