Lot 49

Overall surfaces scratches and paint loss, several lines of paper adhesion to lefthand side, unframed.


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Gift of the artist to Barry Humphries
The Estate of Barry Humphries (1934-2023)

This painting features a plaster mask cast by Sir William Dargie who lent the mask to his student at the time, Bill Beasley. The mask can also be seen in Dargie's 'The Mask of Barry Humphries', c. 1972, oil on composition board, found in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.