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Faces I Have Met by Albert Tucker
$45.00
In 1985 at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Albert Tucker held a major exhibition of nearly sixty portraits entitled ‘Faces I Have Met’. In this series he paid tribute to the generation of the 1940s, to the principal figures who participated in a significant period of Australia’s cultural history. These portraits are now collected with others in this book.
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A hardcover edition with ochre-coloured cloth boards, blue lettering and illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Numerous colour illustrations throughout. 72 full page coloured illustrations, dustjacket, a fine copy. . First edition.
Tucker painted ‘the principal figures’ who participated in Melbourne’s 1940s art scene in order ‘to preserve a sense of the palpable presence of these people; to provide the human face of a 40-year episode in Australia’s cultural development. And so this book has his portraits of John Reed, Sunday Reed, John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, Danila Vassilieff, Yosl Bergner, Adrian Lawlor, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd, Noel Counihan, Barrett Reid, John Yule, John Sinclair (mostly painted in the early 1980s).
Publisher: Hutchison of Australia, Melbourne, 1986
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