Drawn From Life By John Olsen Signed.Good condition few spots can be seen on end paper,Dustjacket  is in used condition.

The signed page is special as this book was  believed  to belong  to the late Margret Ollie ( Australia's  most significant  still-life and interior artist

John olsen gifted this book to His close friend signed with special appreciation for her longlasting friendship and Her great art.

In 1957, a Sydney businessman who recognised the immense talent of the young John Olsen paid him to go to Majorca and paint. The businessman sold most of the paintings for a profit, and Olsen was transformed by the influences of European art and the Mediterranean. In Majorca Olsen began a journal, which he has continued ever since, a fluid combination of words and drawings recording the events of an extraordinarily rich life.

This book is based on these journals and reproduces many of the drawings from them. Olsen's life has been marked by a generosity of spirit, by the vitality of his friendships with men, including many of Australia's leading painters, and with women, and by his personal struggles which have led to some of the greatest works of Australian landscape painting

John Olsen was Australia's greatest living painter. The book is printed in two colours and contains sixty of the drawings from the journals interspersed with the text.

Sadly He passed away on 11 April .

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