“Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.”

"John Singer Sargent" (1986)
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

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Australian critic, historian, writer 1938–2012

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