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Peter Bowers Elliott Thomas Keneally

Image courtesy the artist's estate

The style used by Peter Bowers Elliott for this portrait of author Thomas Keneally was a direct response to Jackson Pollock’s painting Blue poles, which had been purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 amid controversy.