Item - Elmira pink
| ID | UNSW P 1995/0691 (088490) |
| Artist | Sydney BALL (1933 - ) |
| Title | Elmira pink |
| Alternate Titles | |
| Category | Painting |
| Medium | acrylic and enamel on cotton duck |
| Materials | acrylic and enamel pigments, cotton duck canvas support |
| Edition Number | |
| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 218.50 |
| Width | 167.00 |
| Depth | 0.00 |
| Other | Original frame: 219.5 x 168 x 5 cms |
| Marks/Inscriptions | |
| Location | verso |
| Signed | in black crayon: Sydney Ball 1976 |
| Produced | |
| When | 1976 |
| Where | Australia |
| Style | Abstract Expressionist |
| Subject | Non-representational |
| Credit Line | Presented by Mrs Carolyn Ward through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1995 |
| Description/Remarks | One of the artist's lyrical abstraction "Stain" paintings - has large areas of brushed multi-colour washes over-painted with brushed, splashed and dribbled solid colours. Some areas of unprimed canvas show through. (In original strip aluminium frame of the period.) |
| Exhibition History | Sydney Ball: New Paintings Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra (00/00/1976 - 00/00/1976) Art at UNSW: selected acquisitions 1991-1995 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, (17/02/1996 - 16/03/1996) |
| Bibliography | Uniken (14 July 1995) University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW Australia, 1995, page 9: Art Look ISBN Allen, B., Art at UNSW: selected acquisitions 1991-1995, University of New South Wales Kensington NSW Australia 1996, ill. page 12 in cat. essay "A particular perspective"; list of works page 17. ISBN 0 7334 1278 5 Ball, S., McCaughey, P., Walker, W., Sydney Ball: The Stain paintings 1971-80, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney NSW Australia, 2013, in text pg.16; ill.pg.68; list of works pg.94. ISBN 978 0 9874336 1 9 (hardback) |
