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PAINTING (DEVIL AND LAUGHING MAN) 1981
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PETER BOOTH (B. 1940)
PAINTING (DEVIL AND LAUGHING MAN) 1981
signed and dated 'Peter Booth 1981' (upper left); inscribed 'Visual Arts Board of Australia/Peter Booth/Laughing Man 1981/Jodimedcen P/L' on Arts Council of Great Britain label (affixed to the reverse)
oil on canvas
170.2 x 213.4 cm
PAINTING (DEVIL AND LAUGHING MAN) 1981
signed and dated 'Peter Booth 1981' (upper left); inscribed 'Visual Arts Board of Australia/Peter Booth/Laughing Man 1981/Jodimedcen P/L' on Arts Council of Great Britain label (affixed to the reverse)
oil on canvas
170.2 x 213.4 cm
Provenance
Pinacotheca, Melbourne 1981
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1984
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1984
Literature
N Borlase, Mockery menaces the dream, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 July 1981, illus.
M Vaizey, Australia: Images for a new generation, The Sunday Times, London, 4 April 1982, p. 38, illus.
Commonwealth aversion to playing if safe, The Times, London, 6 April 1982
M Richards, Australian diversity, Tribune, London, 16 April 1982
M Vaizey, Australia: Images for a new generation, The Sunday Times, London, 4 April 1982, p. 38, illus.
Commonwealth aversion to playing if safe, The Times, London, 6 April 1982
M Richards, Australian diversity, Tribune, London, 16 April 1982
Exhibited
Melbourne, Pinacotheca, Peter Booth, 1981
Sydney, Watters Gallery, Eureka! Artists from Australia London, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain; London, Serpentine Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dum autre contintent: L'Australie le reve et le reel, March-April 1982
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, D'un authre continent: L'Australia le rêve et le réel, October - December 1983, cat. no. 6
Sydney, Watters Gallery, Eureka! Artists from Australia London, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain; London, Serpentine Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dum autre contintent: L'Australie le reve et le reel, March-April 1982
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, D'un authre continent: L'Australia le rêve et le réel, October - December 1983, cat. no. 6
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