Dacre King with the Kelvinator fridge painted by Clifton Pugh, which has been sitting in the art collector’s shed since he bought it in a garage sale about 20 years ago.Dacre King with the Kelvinator fridge painted by Clifton Pugh, which has been sitting in the art collector’s shed since he bought it in a garage sale about 20 years ago.painted by the world famous Australian artist Clifton Pugh, which has gone missing. And then he thought about the art in his shed, gathering dust.
Eleven of Australia’s great creatives – Arthur Boyd, Paul Beadle, Elaine Haxton and Pugh among them – were commissioned by Kelvinator Australia, through the Australian Women’s Weekly, to paint a fridge each. The plan was to auction them to raise money for Legacy.Photograph: Simon Scott Photo/The Guardian“Particularly when painters were starting out, without much money, and were likely to be eating in the kitchen, and confronted by a big blank white space.
“I loaded it on the back of a friend’s Subaru Brumby, took it home, and it’s been sitting in my shed ever since.”Back in 1958, the Australian Women’s Weekly ran a three-page spread showing the artists posing with their work. There’s Boyd, an arm across the top of his fridge, which boasts a play on the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan. Haxton, cigarette in hand, sits next to another Greek-themed piece.
In 1989, the Australian Financial Review reported that the Hal Missingham fridge had turned up in a garage in the Blue Mountains. It’s not clear what happened to it after that.King describes himself as a lifelong art collector with “champagne tastes on a beer budget”, who is still involved in the arts community. He also has Pugh paintings on canvas.
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