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Ambrose Hallen

1941
Max Dupain OBE

gelatin silver photograph on paper (image: 37.7 cm x 27.0 cm)
Ambrose Hallen

Ambrose Hallen (1886-1943) was an Australian modernist artist whose work went largely unrecognised in this country. He lived for some thirty years in France, and his work was to retain the influence of the Ecole de Paris artists with whom he was acquainted. In the late 1930s he taught painting in Melbourne.

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Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003

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2003.36
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Artist and subject

Max Dupain OBE (age 30 in 1941)

Ambrose Hallen (age 55 in 1941)

Subject professions

Visual arts and crafts

Supported by

Tim Fairfax AC (54 portraits supported)

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1. The photographer's shadow (Olive Cotton and Max Dupain), c. 1935 (printed 1999) Olive Cotton. 2. Max Dupain, Artamon, Sydney, 1979 (printed 2000) David Moore. © Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
http://davidmoorephotography.com.au/. 3. David Moore, Max Dupain and John Gollings, 1980 (printed 2001) Kate Gollings. © Estate of Kate Gollings. 4. Ambrose Hallen, 1937 Lina Bryans. © Estate of Lina Bryans.

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