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So, he won the Archibald prize in 1944 and there is a bit of controversy.
Wikipedia: "Joshua Smith (1905 – 22 July 1995) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1944 . . . but is better known as the subject of the previous year's controversial Archibald Prize win, by artist William Dobell.
Although the portrait of him was very popular . . . a court case relating to the portrait in 1943 damaged his career, as well as Dobell's . . . In an interview in 1991 Smith called the portrait a curse, a phantom that haunts me. It has torn at me every day of my life. I've tried to bury it inside me in the hope it would die, but it never does . . ."
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