This photo is remarkably similar to a painting by an Australian artist, I've been trying to think who it is. It first occurred to me it might be William Dobell but I've looked him up on Wiki and it seems unlikely.
It's Russell Drysdale. The painting is called: The Cricketers (1948). The figures in it are almost identical to those in the 1939 photo.
"The cricketers
(1948) Vaucluse, Sydney oil on composition board 76.2 x 101.6 cm inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Russell Drysdale Private collection, Melbourne
The cricketers is perhaps Drysdale's most famous painting, and one of the most frequently reproduced images in twentieth-century Australian art. The subject of three figures set amid the stark walls of buildings in a deserted town, bathed in unnatural light, is a haunting and extremely original interpretation of a familiar sporting theme."
-Wikipedia.
Well maybe not so original? But anyway I reckon things are getting a bit alarming when an uncultured bum like me can make references to art. The chattering classes would be appalled.
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This photo is remarkably similar to a painting by an Australian artist, I've been trying to think who it is. It first occurred to me it might be William Dobell but I've looked him up on Wiki and it seems unlikely.
It's Russell Drysdale. The painting is called: The Cricketers (1948). The figures in it are almost identical to those in the 1939 photo.
"The cricketers
(1948) Vaucluse, Sydney
oil on composition board
76.2 x 101.6 cm
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Russell Drysdale
Private collection, Melbourne
The cricketers is perhaps Drysdale's most famous painting, and one of the most frequently reproduced images in twentieth-century Australian art. The subject of three figures set amid the stark walls of buildings in a deserted town, bathed in unnatural light, is a haunting and extremely original interpretation of a familiar sporting theme."
-Wikipedia.
Well maybe not so original? But anyway I reckon things are getting a bit alarming when an uncultured bum like me can make references to art. The chattering classes would be appalled.
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