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John Olsen

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John Olsen is certainly acknoweldged as Australia's greatest living artist and literally a "living legend".

Essentially an abstract artist with a figurative element applying to many of his works. His career now spanning well over half a century has been one of success after success.

He is represented in virtually every major state institution and in every major collection.

John Olsen's top price at auction - 15 October 2006 Mossgreen - of $1,093,050 is the highest price achieved for any living Australian artist.

Biography

1928 Born in Newcastle, NSW and studied at the Julien Ashton Art School and the Orban Art School
1957 Left for Europe and studied independently in London, Paris and Spain and exhibited in Paris and Basel
1960 Returned to Australia and began exhibiting at the Clune Galleries, and shortly after, the Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney
1964- Returned to Europe where he lived and worked on tapestries in
1967 Portugal
Solo Exhibitions- Selected
1954 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1963 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1967 Clune Galleries, Sydney
1970 Reid Gallery, Brisbane
1972 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1976 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1980 Lister Gallery, Perth
1982 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1983 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1986 Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1990 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1991 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1992 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993 Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
1995 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1998 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1999 Savill Galleries, Sydney
2000 John Olsen: Past & Present, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2001 Recent works on paper, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2003 John Olsen, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2006 The Coorong, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne