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| Title | Self-portrait with pin-up |
| | Creator | Richard LARTER
Birth Date: 1929 |
| | Date Created | 1965 |
| | Collection Area | Paintings |
| | Medium | synthetic polymer paint and alkyd resin on composition board |
| | Subject | Richard LARTER |
| | Information | Richard Larter (b. 1929), artist, attended art school in London and travelled and studied in Algiers before migrating to Australia with his family in 1962. He was soon characterised as an Australian Pop artist for his flat, collage-like paintings, which incorporated brightly coloured painted heads of celebrities, sex symbols, dictators, politicians and porn stars, often represented by his late wife, the performance artist Pat Larter. Larter has also made a significant body of geometric, ethereal and glittery abstract paintings, elements of which have often filled the backgrounds of the figurative works. This painting, featuring an intricate hypodermic syringe technique originally inspired by Arabic calligraphy, contains many of the elements characteristic of Larter's figurative and abstract work. |
| | Dimensions | Type: Frame
Height: 124.7
Width: 79.4
Type: Sight
Height: 121.0
Width: 75.6
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| | Access No. | 2002.44 |
| | Credit Line | Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002 |
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