Art Gallery of New South Wales
Neo-classical sandstone gallery of Australian art, home to a portrait once put on trial in court.
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This guide to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney turns on a 1944 Supreme Court case, when two rival painters sued to strip William Dobell of the Archibald Prize, arguing his portrait of Joshua Smith was a caricature, not a true likeness. It follows the trial that resulted, with critics and medical experts called to testify on what a portrait actually is, while Smith sat and listened to his own face picked apart in court. It also traces the friendship between the two painters, forged sharing a tent as camouflage artists in the war.
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