Godfrey Miller (1893 - 1964)

SPACE MOVEMENT I, 1936

oil on canvas on composition board 

36.5 x 36.0 cm
50.5 x 50.5 cm (frame)

bears inscription verso: JH 267
bears certificate of authenticity attached verso, signed by Lewis Miller, John Henshaw and John Kaplan, dated 16 April 1975 

The Estate of the Artist
Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 1976 (label attached verso)
P L Pickles, Sydney, August 1978
Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1979
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane (label attached verso)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 June 1991, lot 58
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Art, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 12 July – 18 August 1979, cat. 78 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Australian Paintings 1936–1976, A Collection, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 29 May – 18 June 1981, cat. 1 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 22 (as ‘Space Movement’)
One, Two, See: Maths in a Visual World, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, 2003
on long term loan to Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, prior to 2006 (label attached verso)

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 15, 227

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
On close inspection, there are very fine hairline cracks mostly to the upper centre right and centre left of the composition. These are old, stable and visible in the enlarged online catalogue image.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

The work is housed in a blue/grey painted timber frame.