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Bill. The Life of William Dobell. Softcover, ISBN 9781925030549
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Sydney, Cammeray, 2014
Used. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, top corner front cover little creased, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 497 pp. A biography of one of Australia’s greatest artists. Explores how ambition and talent took a working class boy a long way in the world from Newcastle to Sydney and overseas, and how the reaction to one painting (Archibald Prize award controversy) almost destroyed him. It is also a celebration of community,…