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Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Publishers original grey boards with gilt lettering to white spine. Minor shelf wear to bottom of boards. Dustwrapper: unclipped, minor rubbing to surfaces, however now protected in Brodart. Brown endpapers, no inscription, paper abrasion to rear endpaper. Ex library stamp, whited out on publication page, no other stamp marks. 188pp plus 4pp index. Profusely illustrated with magnificent b/w photographs and illustrations and some colour plates throughout text. Slight wave to first three pages otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. When Danila Vassilieff died, poverty-stricken, in 1958 at the age of 60, he earned the love, gratitude and reverence of the major Australian painters of the 1940s and 1950s. Despite this, nothing substantial had been written about his influence, his life, and his art. Hence he had been described as the missing link in the story of Australian twentieth century painting. The author has combined a fluent appraisal of the quality and content of Vassilieff's art with a witty and compassionate account of this exotic character whose struggle to prove himself as a man and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.