Title
Margaret Carnegie with orange dress and specs
1966
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Multiple portrait of Margaret Carnegie
- Date
- 1966
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- six canvases: each 40.7 x 30.7 cm stretcher; 81.7 x 92.0 cm overall; 84.7 x 95.0 x 3.2 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, brown oil "Desmond Digby". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Patrick White 1991
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 100.1991.41
- Copyright
- © Desmond Digby
- Archibald Prize
- - 1966
- Artist information
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Desmond Digby
Works in the collection
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About
This work was a finalist in the 1966 Archibald Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1991.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman (1966), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jan 1967–19 Feb 1967
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, 132.
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David Marr, Patrick White: A life by David Marr, Milsons Point, 1991, 467.
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William Yang, Patrick White: the late years, Sydney, 1995, 10, 14 (illus.). Photograph of Patrick White's study after White's death with 'Margaret Carnegie with orange dress and specs' hanging on wall.
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