John Beard (born 1943)

BLANK THOUGHT BLOOD REMEMBERING III, 1989

monotype on paper

176.0 x 98.0 cm
199.5 x 113.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: Beard 89

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 7 April 1991, lot 66
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

John Beard, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 2 – 27 May 1989, cat. 3 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
IMPACT, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1 December 2012 – 21 April 2013
on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 186 (illus.), 213

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and original condition.
The colour pigment values are strong.
There is a 3cm tear of the top layer of paper, where during the printing process the wet paper lifted.
The artist accepted this as part of the work’s inherent nature and float mounted the large sheet in a timber box frame, covered with protective Perspex attached with exposed screws.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.