biography
pronunciation:
[wiytlee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1939–92)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied in Sydney, and also in France, after winning a scholarship. Represented in the 1961 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, he won the international prize at the second Paris bienniale the same year. He later worked in New York City (1967–9), and continued to travel and exhibit abroad regularly. The most famous Australian painter of his generation, the intensity and self-destructive tendencies of his life are reflected in his art. Winner of major Australian art prizes - the Archibald, Wynne, and Sulman many times over - he is known for his series of paintings of the English murderer, John Christie, his lush, sensuous representations of the female form, and his dazzling paintings of Sydney harbour. |
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