Yellow Room Triptych

It is rare for our small town to make a splash in the Australian Financial Review, our main business newspaper. It did today because the local art gallery, one of the best in rural Australia, has just splashed a lot of money on a lovely painting by one of Australia's leading artists who died just recently, Margaret Olley. She liked it so much among her entire oeuvre that she refused to part with it, although widely admired by the art-world. With her death at age 88, those constraints were removed and Armidale's New England Regional Art Museum beat Sydney's Art Gallery of NSW to the punch. Margaret liked the New England district and our gallery, so it has found a natural home along with another major work gifted by the artist. I subscribed to the purchase fund.

Here's a picture of The Yellow Room Triptych. It could almost be a van Gogh! The picture measures 1.2 x 2.75 m.

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