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Visual Arts
Part of The Dale Frank Gift is the painting, Art critics make great fat chicks between flannelette sheets (2001); supplied
Dale Frank, described by the National Gallery of Australia as ‘one of Australia’s most significant contemporary painters’, today has gifted a suite of paintings, drawings and multi-media collages valued at $4 million.
‘Dale Frank’s generous donation to the Gallery is the most significant gift by a living artist since the Arthur Boyd Gift in 1975,’ said NGA Director Ron Radford AM.
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