Vassilieff and His Art (1982)

Second-Hand (Hardcover)

Excellent condition

When Danila Vassilieff died, poverty-stricken, in 1958 at the age of 60, he had earned the love, gratitude and reverence of the major Australian painters of the 1940s and 1950s

Despite this, nothing substantial has been written about his influence, his life, his art.

Hence he has come to be described as the missing link in the story of Australian twentieth-century painting.

He was a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid 1930s fired with a belief in creation and fortified by the enthusiastic reception of his work in London.

Vassilieff's immediate and imaginative response to the Australian landscape deepened this impact.

This critical survey of Vassilieff's painting and sculpture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogues of his creative output in both areas.