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Lot Essay
Relate work: Portrait of Germaine Greer, 1984, oil and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 120 cm, Private collection
"Rosemary Roche, from Rome, was an agreeable and compliant model for Portrait of Germaine Greer. Germaine was not a particularly cooperative model when she initially posed. Perhaps she thought modelling was a waste of her time. She forcibly complained, when she saw the finished painting, that she never used a handbag and never sat with her knees together." (Jeffrey Smart cited in Australian Galleries, Jeffrey Smart Drawings and Studies 1942 - 2001, Melbourne, 2001, p. 122)
"Rosemary Roche, from Rome, was an agreeable and compliant model for Portrait of Germaine Greer. Germaine was not a particularly cooperative model when she initially posed. Perhaps she thought modelling was a waste of her time. She forcibly complained, when she saw the finished painting, that she never used a handbag and never sat with her knees together." (Jeffrey Smart cited in Australian Galleries, Jeffrey Smart Drawings and Studies 1942 - 2001, Melbourne, 2001, p. 122)