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Oil · Board
Smith & Singer · Aug 19, 2025Unsold / did not meet reserve
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Non-Objective Painting
Ralph Balson (Australian, 1890–1964) · 1958
A$49,091 price realized incl. premium
≈ $35,376≈ £26,102≈ €31,191
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on composition board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated lower right: R Balson. 58
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 100.5 cm
- Auction house
- Deutscher and Hackett
- Sale
- Highlights from the National Australia Bank Art Collection (67-national-australia-bank-collection)
- Date
- February 22, 2022
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Lot
- 1
- Estimate
- A$60,000 – A$80,000 (≈ $43,238 – $57,650) (≈ £31,903 – £42,537) (≈ €38,122 – €50,829)
- Source
- Auction house deutscherandhackett.com ↗Retrieved Oct 11, 2026
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