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Greg Weight (Aust., b.1946).

John Olsen In Bath, Rydal [NSW]

1996/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s blindstamp on image lower right, annotated “A/P” and signed in ink in lower margin, titled, dated (twice) and signed in pencil verso, 46.8 x 35.3cm.

Illustrated on front cover and in Australian artists: portraits by Greg Weight, 2004, p35 with comment “John told me his knees were giving him trouble and the bed and the bath at times became his only landscape…John hopped in the bath, fully clothed, with brushes in hand. The session developed into a spontaneous parody of the Jacques-Louis David painting ‘The Death of Marat.’” Held in NPG.

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Item #CL195-178

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