Howard Arkley : The home show. Australian Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale of Art 1999 (in illustrated folder)

A$125 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Australia Council, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small bump to fore edge), pp. 44, colour illustrations. In the illustrated folder reproducing the front cover (light general wear). This is the catalogue of an exhibition of Howard Arkley s paintings showcased at the 1999 Venice Biennale. The body of work exhibited transformed the familiar and mundane of suburbia into the unique and the exotic at the hands of this unique artist who was one of Australia s leading contemporary painters. Two days after Arkley s return from Venice he was found dead from a drug overdose. With the original illustrated card folder.

• Binding: Hardcover

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