MIDNIGHT, 1988

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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DAVID ASPDEN

(1935 - 2005)
MIDNIGHT, 1988

oil on canvas

152.0 x 122.0 cm

inscribed with artist’s symbol lower right: Δ
signed dated and inscribed with title verso: ASPDEN ’88 / OIL / “MIDNIGHT”
bears inscription on label attached to stretcher bar verso: 1

Private sale
Provenance

Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection 
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 7 April 1991, lot 2
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above 

Exhibited

David Aspden, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, 11 June – 7 July 1988, cat. 1
on long term loan to Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria 

Literature

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 142 (illus.), 212