Janet Dawson (born 1935)

BALLERINA, c.1955

oil on canvas on composition board

91.5 x 60.5 cm
111.5 x 81.0 cm (frame)

signed upper centre: DAWSON

John Howley, Melbourne, until 1987
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 1 May 2002, lot 126 (as ‘Ballerina, c.1953’)
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 20 June – 7 July 1989, cat. 13 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘(Ballerina), c.1955’)
The Reading Room: The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 9 November 2013 – 20 April 2014

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 18, 217

Studies of a Dancer, c.1955, pen and ink, 25.0 × 26.0 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
Ultraviolet light inspection reveals several spots of old cosmetic retouching, which are:
· small area to upper left beside the ballerina’s face
· to the right edge of the ballerina’s hair and right shoulder
· small spots upper right quadrant
· lower left of Ballerina’s costume edge
· beside the Ballerina’s lower left leg
Each of these is old, stable and only visible under ultraviolet light.

The work is housed in a painted moulded timber frame.