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An image of Poverty makes strange bedfellows by Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo

Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo

(Australia 1870–1955)

Title
Poverty makes strange bedfellows
Place of origin
SydneyNew South WalesAustralia
Year
1905
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas on hardboard
Dimensions

74.5 x 135.0cm sight; 99.2 x 159.7 x 6.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l. corner, red oil "A. Dattilo-Rubbo/ ...1905".
Credit
Edward Stinson Bequest Fund 2009
Accession number
216.2009
Copyright
© Estate of Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo
Location
19th c Australian art
Bibliography (11)

'Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo: a charismatic teacher’s work in focus' by David Hulme & Brigitte Banziger., Australian Art Sales Digest 30 May 2011, 30 May 2011, (colour illus.).

Emma Collerton (Australia) (Author), Australian Collection Focus: Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, Sydney, 2011, 9 (colour illus.).

Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne (Australia, estab. 2007) (Compilator), Deutscher and Hackett fine art auction: Melbourne 29 April 2009, Woollahra, Apr 2009, 32, 33 (colour illus.). lot no. 16

'Collections: Australian painting', pg. 21-22., Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2008-09 2009, 2009, 21. 23 (colour illus.).

Lone Hand 01 Mar 1909, 01 Mar 1909, frontispiece (colour illus.).

'Australian painters: IV - Anthony Datillo-Rubbo' by 'Cigarette', pg. 244-247., The red funnel [vol. 3, no. 3] 01 Oct 1906, 01 Oct 1906, 245 (illus.).

'The Dattilo-Rubbo Collection', pg. 9., The Sydney Morning Herald 05 Jun 1906, 05 Jun 1906, 9.

The Sydney Morning Herald 20 Sep 1905, 20 Sep 1905, 5.

'Royal Art Society twenty-sixth annual exhibition', pg. 11., The Sydney Morning Herald 28 Aug 1905, 28 Aug 1905, 11. Exhibition review.

'Royal Art Society annual exhibition: the oil paintings', Daily telegraph 28 Aug 1905, 28 Aug 1905. Exhibition review.

Royal Art Society of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1880) (Author), Royal Art Society of New South Wales 26th Annual Exhibition (1905), Sydney, 1905, 14 (illus.). cat.no. 38; priced 100 guineas

Exhibition history (2)

Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales (1905), Vickery's Galleries, Aug 1905–Sep 1905.

Australian Collection Focus: Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo (2011), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 May 2011–14 Aug 2011.