A.M.E. Bale
1875-1955

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF MRS IRIS GUNNER, MELBOURNE

A.M.E. Bale

1875-1955
GLADIOLI 1925

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'A.M.E. BALE / 1925' lower left; frame: original, John Thallon, Melbourne
101.5 x 76.3CM

• Lot Sold $24,000 (Hammer Price)
• $29,280 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mrs Iris Gunner, Melbourne
By descent
Private Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Paintings by Miss A.M.E. Bale and Miss Jo Sweatman, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 29 March – 9 April 1927, no. 44
Miss A.M.E. Bale and Miss Bernice Edwell, Beaux Arts Gallery, Melbourne, 14-25 October 1930, no. 4 or 21
A.M.E. Bale and Victor Cobb, Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 7 March 1933, no. 10
A.M.E. Bale and Victor Cobb, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 26 September 1933, no. 10
The Centenary Art Exhibition, Commonwealth Bank Chambers, 8 October - December 1934 (uncatalogued; label verso)
A.M.E Bale, Rose A. Walker, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 19-30 November 1935, no. 8
Paintings by Miss A.M.E. Bale, Tye’s Velasquez Gallery, Melbourne, 30 September - October 1940, no. 5
Exhibition of Paintings by Miss A.M.E. Bale, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 10-20 August 1943, no. 3

Literature

‘Art Notes: Miss A.M.E. Bale and Miss Jo. Sweatman Exhibit’, The Age, Melbourne, 29 March 1927, p. 9
‘Paintings Exhibited: A Joint Display’, The Argus, Melbourne, 29 March 1927, p. 8
‘Australian Artists of Today: Miss A.M.E. Bale’, The Age, Melbourne, 3 August 1929, p. 7 (illustrated), ‘Flower Study’
Arthur Streeton, ‘Art Exhibitions: Misses Bale and Edwell’, The Argus, Melbourne, 14 October 1930, p. 7
George Bell, ‘Joint Exhibition by Two Women’, The Sun, Melbourne, 14 October 1930, p. 13
H.E. Fuller, ‘Oils, Etchings and Watercolours’, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 7 March 1933, p. 8
Arthur Streeton, ‘Paintings and Etchings: Miss Bale and Victor Cobb’, The Argus, Melbourne, 26 September 1933, p. 8
‘Art Exhibitions: Two Painters Exhibit’, The Age, Melbourne, 19 November 1935, p. 9
John Harcourt, ‘Art Exhibitions: Emphasis on Colour’, The Argus, Melbourne, 1 October 1940, p. 5
Peter Perry, A.M.E. Bale: Her Art and Life, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, 2011, pp. 33, 84, 85 (illustrated)