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- AU Financial Review
For sale: ‘Piece of insistent crudeness' that put Aussie art on map
A painting that took Australian modernism global when it was bought and exhibited by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1959 will go to auction in Melbourne this month, with only a five-figure estimate.
Albert Tucker's Lunar landscape, painted in London in 1957 and inspired by photographs that fellow artist Sidney Nolan had shown him of drought-affected Queensland, was purchased by MoMA in 1959 and hung in its Recent Acquisitions exhibition, alongside such luminaries as Adolph Gottlieb and Jasper Johns.
