Eva Breuer Art Dealer is pleased to announce a most important exhibition of works by Carl Plate, a leading Australian abstractionist. The paintings are rare works from the Plate family collection. The exhibition is to coincide with the Art Gallery of NSW exhibition, based around the Gallery's major masterpiece, Graph Segments 1963-4. Eva Breuer Art Dealer will be showing works related to Graph Segments in this exhibition.

Plate (1909-1977) was born in Perth and studied at the National Art School in Sydney. He then travelled and studied abroad before returning to Sydney in 1940, where he had a remarkable influence on local artists through the establishment of his famous Notanda Gallery in Rowe Street, Sydney. He was a highly gifted painter who moved from figurative abstraction in the 50s to pure abstraction during the 1960s and 70s.

James Gleeson described his work in 1963 as being among the handful of masterpieces of abstract painting in Australia. Elwyn Lynn, an important abstract painter himself as well as critic, described Plate's paintings as bringing an "epic poetry to abstraction."

Plate exhibited widely from 1941-1976, both in Australia and abroad. He has won prizes such as the McCaughey Prize in 1968 and the Aubusson Tapestry Prize in 1967. Plate is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, regional galleries in NSW and institutions in London, New York and Paris, and important corporate and private collections in Australia.