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Jusy Cassab (1920-), Australian painter

Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))

Artist of 13 portraits
Judy Cassab is one of Australia's most respected female artists, renowned for her abilities as a portraitist. Born in Vienna, she was raised by her grandparents in Hungary where she began studying painting. Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 and quickly gained a reputation for her portrait painting. Since her first solo exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1953, Cassab has held well over fifty solo exhibitions throughout Australia as well as in Paris and London. She has won numerous awards, including the Rubinstein Portrait Prize, and has been three times winner of the prestigious Archibald Prize. Her work is represented in many private and public collections around the world.

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4923

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
oil on canvas, 1957
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4923

6200

(Norman) Harold Lever, Baron Lever

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
oil on canvas, 1958
On display at Palace of Westminster, London
NPG 6200

6199

Rika ('Rixi') Markus (née Scharfstein)

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
oil on canvas, 1958
NPG 6199

D32991

Dame Joan Sutherland

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32991

D32992

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32992

D32993

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32993

D32994

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32994

D32995

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32995

D32996

Lloyd Frederic Rees

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32996

D32997

Rosemary Dobson

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32997

D32998

Judith Wright

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32998

D32999

Morris Langlo West

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D32999

D33000

Thomas Michael Kenneally

by Judy Cassab (Judy Kampfner (née Kaszab))
lithograph, 1984
NPG D33000

Links
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
Judy Cassab (Mrs Kampfner) website
Places
Australia
Austria
Hungary