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Sex, alcoholism, abandonment: growing up with Australia’s most famous living painter – Sydney Morning Herald
Gallerist Tim Olsen’s memoir reveals “the brutality attached to living under the shadow” of his famous artist father, John, its after-effects and their recent reconciliation….
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Tim Olsen international art dealer, philanthropist and newly minted memoirist wants to show me a painting.
Our location is his apartment, high above his gallery in the prosperous Sydney precinct of Woolahra, and the image depicts Lake Hindmarsh in western Victoria’s Wimmera.
The 92-year-old who created this half a century ago is routinely described as Australia’s greatest living painter. He is one of an elite stable of creatives represented…
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