Estate of Paul Partos, till 2010;
Private Collection, Sydney since then

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Paul Partos
No Title, 1990
SOLD
oil on canvas
137.00 x 112.00
signed and dated and inscribed ‘cat 235’ on reverse
The McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, 1981 (for which this and two other paintings were specifically painted);
Paul Partos, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 7 – 30 October, 2010, no. 3
Charles Nodrum, Paul Partos, Charles Nodrum Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2010:
“His paintings in the early 60s were juicily rich in image and texture: all action. His contribution to The Field was a complete reverse: a square work comprised of eight smaller squares surrounding an empty centre… The mid to late 1970s saw a reversal of this whole process - again. Onto a delicately inflected surface there entered this small square or rectangle of opulently textured paint. The action had returned to the centre. The process continued with the central section tending to grow larger and more dominant over the years; but in the vast majority of them, the border remained deliberately quiet and understated. The three canvas paintings in this exhibition are special in a different way again: most unusually, the border has been rendered with a texture nearly as active as the centre. The result is a degree of competitive tension between centre and surround – a sort of visual throb.”
Further works by the Artist
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.