George Baldessin (1939 - 1978)

PERFORMANCE (VARIATION 2), 1971

etching, aquatint and coloured stencils from two plates on paper

55.5 x 104.0 cm (sheet, sight)
74.0 x 120.0 cm (framed)

edition of 25
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Edition 25 'Performance' George Baldessin 71

Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 9 April 1991, lot 204 (as ‘Performance’)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 52
Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne, 31 August 2019 – 28 January 2019 (another example)

Lindsay, R., & Holloway, M. J., George Baldessin: Sculpture and Etchings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983, cat. 69, pp. 84 – 85 (illus., another example)
Cross, E., George Baldessin Estate Prints 1963–1978, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1997, pl. 194, p. 50 (illus., and front cover, another example)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 212
Grishin, S., Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2018, pp. 131, 132 – 133 (illus., another example), 192