A Small Unsigned Painting
A lost artist...an obsessed collector...a true-life detective story set in the Australian art world, involving one of our most famous painters, Lloyd Rees. Both a fascinating and an immensely readable piece of art history and an insight into how works of art are evaluated.
A lost artist...an obsessed collector...a true-life detective story set in the Australian art world, involving one of our most famous painters, Lloyd Rees. Both a fascinating and an immensely readable piece of art history and an insight into how works of art are evaluated.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091836474 (0091836476)
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Meh. Not nearly as interesting as I'd hoped. Written in diary style, this is the attempted search for provenance/artist of a small painting the author found at auction. It was twice as long as it needed to be and rambled a lot as the author speculated on styles, framers, owners, phone director...