David Aspden (1935-2005)Pennant Hills, No. 2, 1975 titled and dated verso: '1975 PENNANT HILLS NO. 2'synthetic polymer paint on canvas157.5 x 300.0cm (62 x 118 1/8in).注脚PROVENANCERoslyn Oxley Gallery, SydneyThe IBM Collection, Australia, acquired from the above in 1983 (label attached verso)EXHIBITEDRoslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney 1983The Wrong Place, Five Sydney Painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson, John Peart, John Firth-Smith, Tasmanian School Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 18 July - 12 August 1983, cat. 1, as "Untitled (Castle Hill Series) (label attached verso)LITERATUREChristopher Coventry, The Wrong Place, Five Sydney Painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson, John Peart, John Firth-Smith, Tasmanian School Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, p. 3 (illus.)This lot is offered with wide discretion on the reserve.Christopher Coventry, in his catalogue essay for the 1983 exhibition The Wrong Place, notes that 'Where these five painters choose to locate themselves is painting. Their sense of place is painting, no matter where they live. Any of their paintings may suggest to the audience that it depicts a scene, or something of a landscape, but it will express more strongly a sense of the fact that art exists in artifice and deliberated structures, and of the peculiar presence of painting's finite form.'