SALI HERMAN

Mr Justin Barker, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above circa 1985
Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above in 1990

Good condition. Several cracks upper right and upper left (in the sky). UV inspection revealed an old repair/over-painting upper left (above chimney).
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Sali Herman settled in Sydney in 1948. He quickly established himself as an artist of repute winning the Wynne prize in 1944 and from 1946-48 he was appointed an official war artist. In that first decade in Sydney Herman established his signature style - the application of paint with a pallette knife on a soft finely textured ground - and subject matter - inner city Sydney as seen in House, Sydney. Barry Pearce comments that Sali Herman 'made people look at urban Sydney in a completeley new light' ¹

1. Barry Pearce, Sali Herman Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, p. 11