Vali Myers (2 August 1930 – 12 February 2003) was an Australian artist, dancer, bohemian and muse whose coverage by the media was mostly in 1950s and 1960s in Europe and the United States.
[1] In 1949 at age 19 Myers travelled to impoverished post-war Paris to pursue a dance career but found herself living on the streets of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Quarter on the Left Bank.
She divided her life between her adopted home of Melbourne, the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, a 14th-century cottage at Il Porto, near Positano and a residence in Paris.
[citation needed] Her art works developed from early detailed monochromes to a full range of vibrant colours and tones[3] extending to watercolour and gold leaf, displaying a "fastidiously rendered depiction of a personal spirit world".
The show, Between Dusk and Dawn was a personal retrospective that included works from private collections in the US and Europe and ran in September and October.