Private Collection, Melbourne

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Stanislaus Rapotec
Experience in Spring No. 2, 1961
SOLD
Catalogue number: 25
PVA on board
122.00 x 183.00
signed and dated l.l.
Possibly Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of NSW, Oct 1961, no. 40;
The Europeans: Emigre Artists in Australia 1930-1960, National Gallery of Australia, March, 1997;
Australian Abstract Expressionist Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 19 Oct - 18 Nov, 2000
Another related composition, 'Experience in Spring' (same size and medium) was exhibited in Australian Painting - Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, Australian State Galleries and Tate Gallery, London, 1963;
Abstract Art in Australia, RMIT Gallery , Melbourne, 1983;
and also in 1940-1965 - The Heroic Years of Australian Painting, Melbourne Town Hall and touring Victorian Regional Galleries, 1977-8, no. 57.
The last two listed the lender as Rudy Komon (Gallery) Collection;
the painting is now in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Exhibition Catalogue
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.