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Painter of the outback

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April 1984, no. 59

The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale by Lou Klepac

Bay Books, 383 pp., $69.95 0 85835 685 6

Painter of the outback

by
April 1984, no. 59

It is an irony that one of the most European of our painters is regarded, in the popular mind, as being the most characteristically Australian. Drysdale, perhaps more so than any other modern Australian painter, depended on European models: his paintings locate themselves not in the outback but in the European modern tradition – beginning with Cézanne and extending through Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, de Chirico and Tanguy to Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland.

The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale

The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale

by Lou Klepac

Bay Books, 383 pp., $69.95 0 85835 685 6

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