Now, almost 30 years after the event, Jim Pavlidis has reunited the unlikely pair, by way of a pigment ink offering for an upcoming art exhibition.
Entitled “1982 - After Manet”, the image of Doull picnicking with his former captain Mike Fitzpatrick and said Grand Final streaker, is one of a series of images to be showcased as part of “Winter Masterpieces - Footy Pictures by Jim Pavlidis & friends”.
“My exhibition Winter Masterpieces is the start of an ongoing project linking well-known artworks with footy in a way that says something of the club’s history,” Pavlidis said.
“Carlton is represented by an interpretation of the French Impressionist Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the grass). In my version Bruce Doull and Mike Fitzpatrick picnic with the 1982 Grand Final streaker.
“From memory, Richmond seemed to be surging at the time the streaker ran out onto the MCG (for the record, Carlton was making the run). I’m not suggesting she won the flag for the Blues, but her timely intervention deserved at least a lunch with legend Doull and captain Fitzpatrick.”
A limited edition run of 150 prints of “1982 - After Manet” are on offer at $850 each unframed. Similar works featuring the likes of Dermott Brereton, Wayne Carey, Tony Lockett and Graham Teasdale, have also been termed “an appropriation of classic masterpiece paintings, and very tongue-in-cheek”.
Winter Masterpieces - Footy Pictures by Jim Pavlidis & friends runs from August 27 through to September 17 at Letitia Morris Gallery, 1156 High Street, Armadale.
