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Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Woman with Shopping' 2013 and 'Pregnant Woman' 2002 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Ron Mueck 'Big Man' 2000, pigmented polyester resin on fiberglass, 203.8 × 120.7 × 204.5 cm, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, museum purchase with funds provided by the Joseph H Hirshhorn Bequest and in honour of Robert Lehrman, chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1997–2004, for his extraordinary leadership and unstinting service to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden © Ron Mueck, photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cathy Carver.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'chicken/man' 2019, 'Crouching Boy in Mirror' 1999–2002 and 'Woman with Sticks' 2009 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Pregnant Woman' 2002, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased with the assistance of Tony and Carol Berg 2003 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Ghost' 1998/2014, YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taipei © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Woman with Sticks' 2009, Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, acquired 2013 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Young Couple' 2013 (background) and 'Spooning Couple' 2005 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Ron Mueck 'Crouching Boy in Mirror' 1999–2002, mixed media, 43.2 × 45.7 × 28 cm figure; 45.7 × 55.9 cm mirror, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica © Ron Mueck, photo: Walker Art Gallery, Gene Pittman.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring (left) 'Ghost' 1998/2014 and 'Spooning Couple' 2005 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.

Installation view of the ‘Ron Mueck: Encounter’ exhibition, featuring 'Crouching Boy in Mirror' 1999–2002 and 'Woman with Sticks' 2009 © Ron Mueck, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Felicity Jenkins.