Provenance:
1886 Purchased at the Australian Artists’ Association inaugural exhibition.
Buxton Art Gallery, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Purchaser unknown.

1915 Fine Art Gallery, Sydney

Mr. E O Morath – private collection

1964 C F Morath – private collection

1994 Purchased by current owner – private collection

Exhibitions:
September 1886 Australian Artists’ Association inaugural exhibition
Buxton Art Gallery, Swanston Street, Melbourne
Catalogue No 43 (line drawing illustration)

October 1996 – Tom Roberts Retrospective
July 1997 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Catalogue page 27 (full colour illustration)

Toured nationally: Tasmanian Museum, National Gallery of Victoria,
Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Private collection

Private Collection, Melbourne;

Mossgreen, Sunday 11 October 2015, Lot 284;

Private collection, Sydney

Utopia Art, Sydney, 1994 Laverty Collection

Private collection, Sydney

In the early 1970s Peter Upward worked on his highly dynamic ‘disc’ paintings of polyvinyl acetate (PVA) abstract swirls on coloured grounds. As John McDonald notes, “The tondo shape, and the spontaneous manner of applying colour gave Upward a profound sense of freedom…. A bold, calligraphic mark in bright red, set against a deep blue, it feels both heraldic and elemental. The line echoes the ink paintings of the Zen masters, but the colour is as vivid as any Colour Field canvas.”

Watters Gallery, Sydney (Cat no. 15 verso)

The Collection of Frank Watters

The Collection of Frank Watters, Sydney