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Details
- Other Title
- Portrait of Patrick White
- Date
- (1965)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- acrylic on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 121.5 x 81.0 cm board; 134.0 x 93.0 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black oil "Desmond Digby". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Patrick White 1991
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 100.1991.44
- Copyright
- © Desmond Digby
- Archibald Prize
- - 1965
- Artist information
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Desmond Digby
Works in the collection
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About
This work was a finalist in the 1965 Archibald Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1991.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Trustees' Watercolour Prize 1965, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Jan 1966–20 Feb 1966
The life of Patrick White, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 Apr 2012–08 Jul 2012
The life of Patrick White, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Aug 2012–28 Oct 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Peter Craven, The life of Patrick White, Canberra, 2012, 25. cat.no. 80
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Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, 133.
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