Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' iconic art

Sydney Ball 'Canto no XVII' iconic artSydney Ball is Australias foremost pioneer of abstract art, whose work is marked by an instinct for the cutting edge. Throughout his long and successful career, Ball explored many styles across his printmaking, painting and drawing including Hard edge Abstraction, Colour Field and Lyrical Abstraction. However, it was his undying love for colour and its ability to add music to a simple form that earned him his reputation as a master composer of graphic

you should paint this way

In the distance a figure runs

Signed: Signed and inscribed with title on verso

with both artists rejecting the dominant mode of abstraction in favour of lyrical

Drawing inspiration from Fauvism

Masterly in her own way

the specificities of his personality and practice have been subsumed beneath tragedy

Works from this series: Temple Letters are in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Image Size: 71 x 107 cm

Girl in Cave is an exceptional acquisition for collectors of Australian figurative art

the Armagh County Museum and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin

A true treasure for a keen-eyed collector