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ADAMS, BRIAN Portrait of an Artist - A Biography of William DobellAustralia, Hutchinson. 1983, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original grey boards with gilt lettering to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities otherwise fine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, minor rubbing to extremities, and now protected in Brodart. Tinted endpapers no inscriptions. 322pp including index plus illustrated with 49 half-tones and 28 colour plates. In 1944, during the final years of the war, an extraordinary court case in Sydney focused attention on the sharp divisions between traditional and modern art in Australia. It was to make a middle-aged painter named William Dobell an overnight celebrity and set him on a career where fame and eventual fortune would go hand-in-hand with a personal conviction that he was a great artist. This is the story of one of the most famous, yet misunderstood, Australians, told against a background of the times and places in which he lived. It tells of an insecure and contradictory man, knighted by his sovereign for services to art, outwardly confident, yet who at his final exhibition was intensely worried about what the critics would think of his latest work. A beautiful collectable copy. Fine/Fine.
Offered for AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 31.88 by: Eccleston Books & Curios - Book number: 000585
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