Keith Looby
Keith Looby
Painter, c. 1980
Keith Looby (born 1940)
oil on canvas
121 x 111 cm
signed lower right
Provenance: The Estate of Ray Hughes, Sydney
$1,650
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Keith Looby was born in Sydney in 1940 and attended the National Art School from 1955 to 1959. In 1960 he sailed for Naples, Italy and over the next seven years travelled throughout the Continent and the United Kingdom visiting galleries and museums while continuing to paint. In 1964 held his first solo exhibition at the Carpini Gallery, Rome. At the suggestion and with the assistance of Jeffrey Smart, Looby returned to Australia in 1967 to show with Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. Since then he has exhibited widely throughout Australia.
Awards and prizes won by Keith Looby include the Archibald Prize (1984); Sulman Prize (1974) and the Blake Prize for Religious Art (1973).
Collections that hold Looby’s work include the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Museum of Modern Art, New York.