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Written by The Australian   
Monday, 06 April 2009
ONE of the last big collections of art by celebrated and sometimes notorious West Australian artist Elizabeth Durack, including the poignant Kings in Grass Castles she painted in 1950, goes under the hammer in Perth this month. While eclipsed by her more famous sister and author Mary Durack, who immortalised the term "Kings in Grass Castles" in her historical epic about the pioneering family, Elizabeth Durack was a prolific artist whose work depicted outback life and Aboriginal people in the remote Kimberley.

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