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- AETATIS SUAE LXXV
(Self portrait at 75) - Date
- 1949
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
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105.4 x 87.6 cm board; 132.7 x 115.4 x 9.3 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 103 x 85.2 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., grey oil "Meldrum 1949".
Signed c.l. verso, pen and black ink "Max Meldrum/ DEC 1949".- Credit
- Marshall Bequest Fund 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 132.1977
- Copyright
- © Estate of Max Meldrum
- Archibald Prize
- - 1949
- Artist information
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Max Meldrum
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About
This work was a finalist in the 1949 Archibald Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1977.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Archie 100, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jun 2021–26 Sep 2021
Archie 100, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 06 Nov 2021–20 Feb 2022
Archie 100, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 18 Mar 2022–12 Jun 2022
Archie 100, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09 Jul 2022–03 Oct 2022
Archie 100, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 22 Oct 2022–08 Jan 2023
Archie 100, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 26 Jan 2023–26 Mar 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Peter Perry and John Perry, Max Meldrum and associates: their art, lives and influences, Victoria, 1996, 129.
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Peter Ross, Let's face it: the history of the Archibald Prize, 'The Postwar Years', pg. 40-62, Sydney, 1999, 43.
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