Peter Booth

Australian · b. 1940 · Painter, Draughtsman

Peter Booth is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter, and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional… (Wikipedia)

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Record prices

  1. Peter Booth, Untitled 1999, 1999, oil on canvasUntitled 1999Smith & Singer · A$695,400≈ $470,494≈ £383,201≈ €423,716Sign up to see
  2. Peter Booth, UNTITLED 1997, 1997, oil on canvasUNTITLED 1997Smith & Singer · A$183,000≈ $164,069≈ £105,899≈ €123,008Sign up to see
  3. Peter Booth, Painting (Old Man in Snow) 2003, 2003, oil on canvasPainting (Old Man in Snow) 2003Menzies · A$150,000≈ $137,042≈ £91,771≈ €102,607Sign up to see

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Peter Booth is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter, and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional power of often dark narratives, and esoteric symbolism.

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Born 1940, SheffieldOccupation Painter, DraughtsmanWikidata Q7172881 ↗ULAN 500088023 ↗

In the collections of

Art Gallery of New South WalesArt Gallery of South AustraliaAuckland Art GalleryMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of AustraliaNational Gallery of Victoria

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Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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