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Still from Russell Crowe’s upcoming film Poker Face.

Is the priceless artwork in Russell Crowe’s new film real – and is it his?

There are some spectacular paintings on display in Russell Crowe’s Poker Face, and the writer-director-star claims most of them are real. But how many are his?

  • Karl Quinn

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Gallery staff hang paintings by Russell Drysdale (L-R The Cricketers, Picture of Donald Friend and Woman in a Landscape) for a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW on March 25, 1998.

From the Archives, 1981: Russell Drysdale, outback visionary, dies

Forty years ago, artist Sir Russell Drysdale died, aged 69. For more than two decades Drysdale impressed into the Australian consciousness a strong, idiosyncratic image of the Australian outback.

  • Robert Rooney
Artist Russell Drysdale at his Double Bay home on July 29, 1965.

From the Archives, 1965: Russell Drysdale on "the only place to live"

The Herald joined outback landscape artist Russell Drysdale at his Double Bay home to discuss the irony of his dwelling in the "centre of Sydney's gracious-living belt".

  • James Cunningham

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