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Drawn from life : a memoir

by Stella Bowen, Julia Loewe

This 1941 autobiography details an Australian painter's childhood in Adelaide and her subsequent artistic career in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. The volume includes a biographical introduction by the artist's daughter.

Accession 24430 ISBN 0330361643 Publisher Picador
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