Explosion 1996
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Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 135.1 x 120
Signed, dated and titled (in black fibre-tipped pen on verso)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; presented through the Art Foundation of Victoria, 2000 [2000.170]
One of the three small canvases Arkley made for an Ericsson mobile phone project (for further discussion, see under general comments for 1996). This work is a modified variant of Fast (1986).
Provenance
- listed in HA’s 1993-6 stock-book as delivered to Tolarno 6/96 (with the other 2 Ericsson canvases)
- Gould Galleries (acquired directly from the artist)
- donated to the NGV by Robert Gould (2000)
Exhibited
- Tolarno at Art Cologne 1996
- HA Gould, Melb., Feb.-March 2000, cat.3 (size given as 138 x 123)
- HA TarraWarra 12/15-2/16 (details as above; ill.)
Literature
- Ericsson 1996 brochure (Arkley archive )
- NGV Annual Report 2000 (ill.)