Oil on canvas
103.0
x 88.0
cm
“Still Life with Blue Decanter”
Oil on canvas dated 1991 by Judy Cassab
Judy Cassab was born in 1920, in Vienna,
arriving in Australia in 1951. She studied in Prague in 1939 and at the
Budapest Academy between 1945 and 1949. Already accomplished as a painter, she
held the first of many exhibitions at the Macquarie Galleries in 1953.
Expressionist influences give distinction to her portraits, which include
likenesses of many distinguished Australian artists, writers, musicians and
actors, such as Joan Sutherland and Robert Helpmann. She held numerous solo
exhibitions between 1953 and 1992, including at Rudy Komon, the New Art Centre,
London and the Australian Embassy, Paris and she won the Archibald Prize for
portraiture twice.
Her work
is represented in the collections of
all the State Galleries as well as the National Gallery of Australia,
Parliament House Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery, London as well as
numerous regional galleries and other public and private collections.
Biblio: McCulloch: Encyclopedia of Australian
Art; Bénézit: Dictionary of Painters
Price: $8,985.00
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