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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
- Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong 06 Nov 2021–20 Feb 2022
- Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns 18 Mar 2022–12 Jun 2022
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 09 Jul 2022–03 Oct 2022
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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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