Francis Giacco Homage to John Reichard

This Archibald Prize-winning painting by Francis Giacco, a homage to cellist John Reichard, attracted controversy due to the incidental placing of the portrait subject. There was precedent for this, however: Brett Whiteley’s face in his 1976 Archibald winner Self-portrait in the studio is similarly tangential to the composition. Reichard died in January 1994, just before the Archibald exhibition.