Romping in the Rain, Vietnam 1964
Oil on board
26 x 30.6 cm
Signed and dated
Provenance: Harold Mertz Collection; The Archer M.Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin; Private collection, Victoria
Exhibited: Paintings from 1926 to 1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 July - 30 August 1964, cat. no. 221, illustrated;
Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection Texas, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Legends and Landscape in Australian Art, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, 1986, Houston, USA
In 1961 Dobell was commissioned by Time Magazine to go to Saigon to paint the portrait of the President, Ngo Dinh Diem for the cover of the magazine
During his visit he kept sketchbooks to jot down his impressions and later made several paintings from them including this one
Item #2619
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