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The secret : Robert Martiensen : in life a brilliant teacher and sportsman, but an elusive, enigmatic and eccentric intellectual : in death a secret life is revealed. /

When in 2007 Robert Martiensen was discovered deceased in his derelict home in rural South Australia an incredible secret was revealed. Throughout the modest building were stacks of some 7,000 framed and unframed paintings all created after 1990 when this enigmatic, inflexible, highly erudite, but e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arthur, Elizabeth (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020.
Subjects:	Martinsen, Robert. Painters > Australia. Artists > Australia. Artists. Painters. Australia.

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