SMH: Painting of musician Robert Forster wins Australia's richest art prize
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SMH: Painting of musician Robert Forster wins Australia's richest art prize
By Linda Morris
Congratulations to NAS alumni What who has won the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2019, for a portrait of Robert Forster that judges said shimmered off the canvas like a “vibrating aura”.
Image: Dominic Lorrimer
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