Just as the fibbing , psycho PM officially announced the election , naturally with another dire prediction of a biblical plague descending across the wide, brown , drenched, scorched , virus- riddled , plundered -land if the Opposition gets into power , Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, presented a great Australian art list which could be hiding a grim pointer to the election outcome , in which blood flows after the final count .
The main offering , at $66,000, is James Gleeson's large surrealist painting of The Home -coming of Agamemnon , depicting the slaying of the Greek leader after a great victory. On examination , a ScoMo-like face , seems placed in a coffin , top , in the horrific scene.
Douglas Stewart also unknowingly introduced a touch of Macbeth into the election speculation with a book on the Kiwi witch - artist Rosaleen Norton, $75 . She presided over a coven at Sydney's King's Cross , her artwork appearing on the walls of cafes , one called the Arabian , in which this blogger used to slurp coffee .
