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Nude in Reflection Louis Kahan https://chrysalis.com.au/Artwork-Kahan-NudeinReflection-251.htm Price: $770AUD Edition: 65 Medium: Etching Artwork Type: Original Editioned Print Size: 39.5 x 30.0 cm Frame Size: 66.0 x 55.0 cm Artwork Size: Medium Published: 1997 Studio: Chrysalis Publishing Printer: Bill Young Pick up Panmure, Auckland https://www.louiskahan.com/biography Born into a family of master tailors in Vienna in 1905, Louis Kahan was drawn to art from an early age. He began as a child by sketching portraits of his father's clients, who included famous actors and musicians of the time. He obtained his masters diploma in tailoring as a young man and his life long fascination with the human form and the subject of creative people at work can be traced to this first trade. The discipline which the craft instilled in him also stayed with him, as did the typically Viennese love of music. Kahan continued to work and live life to the full until the last year of his life. In 1993 his contribution to Australian cultural life was recognised when he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO). On his 90th birthday his peers awarded him the Australian Painters and Sculptors Medal, an honour given only to a handful of artists. While his place in Australian art is assured and he explored national mythic images in his Waltzing Matilda and Shearer series, he remained a European in sensibility and continued throughout his life to visit his beloved Paris. He died, much loved by his family, friends and peers, in his home in Melbourne at the age of 97.