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Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley Muzak Mural - Chair Tableau The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Treatment of work on paper by Howard Arkley ‘Primitive’ 1981 © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley Primitive Gold The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley Tattooed head 1988 The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

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Image: Howard Arkley Suburban Interior The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley Zappo Head The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley Superb + Solid The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley exhibition © NGV 2006

Image: Howard Arkley Shadow Factories The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley Nick Cave The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Howard Arkley Deluxe Setting The Estate of Howard Arkley, Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art

Image: Tom Roberts Coming South 1886 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Colonel Aubrey Gibson in memory of John and Anne Gibson, settlers (1887), 1967

Image: Tom Roberts Allegro con brio, Bourke St West (c.1885–86) National Library of Australia and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased, 1918

Image: Tom Roberts The artists’ camp (1886) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1943

Image: Frederick McCubbin Lost 1886 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1940

Image: Tom Roberts Holiday sketch at Coogee 1888 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Purchased, 1954

Image: Charles Conder An early taste for literature 1888 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Mary Helen Keep Bequest, 1944

Image: Tom Roberts The sunny south (c.1887) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1940

Image: Charles Conder A holiday at Mentone 1888

Image: Arthur Streeton Golden summer, Eaglemont 1889 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased, 1995

Image: Tom Roberts Mrs L. A. Abrahams 1888 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased 1946

Image: Tom Roberts Lily Stirling (1892) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the Chase Manhattan Overseas Corporation, Fellow, 1980

Image: Arthur Streeton Professor Marshall-Hall 1892 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Bequest of Miss Lorna Stirling through the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1956

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Image: Arthur Streeton Spirit of the drought (c.1895) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Joseph Brown Fund, 1983

Image: Arthur Streeton The Point Wharf, Mosman Bay 1893 Private collection, Sydney

Image: Arthur Streeton ‘The purple noon’s transparent might’ 1896 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased 1896

Image: Jane Sutherland Field naturalists Field naturalists by Jane Sutherland, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Gift of Mrs E. H. Shackell, 1962

Image: Frederick McCubbin A bush burial 1890 Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Purchased by subscription, 1900

Image: Tom Roberts Shearing the rams 1890 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1932

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Image: Alberto Giacometti Nose, Le Nez 1947; cast 1965 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Image: Roberto Matta Years of Fear 1941 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © Roberto Matta/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia

Image: Yves KLEIN Untitled red monochrome 1959 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Estate of Geraldine Spreckels Fuller © Yves Klein/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia

Image: Jackson POLLOCK Untitled (Green Silver) c. 1949 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Sylvia and Joseph Slifka © Jackson Pollock/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY Australia

Image: Helen FRANKENTHALER Canal 1963 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in Washington, DC, a Federal Agency; matching funds contributed by Evelyn Sharp © Helen Frankenthaler

Image: Agnes MARTIN White Flower 1960 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Anonymous gift © Agnes Martin/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY Australia

Image: Dan FLAVIN untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg) 1972–73 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection © Dan Flavin/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia Photo by David Heald

Image: Donald JUDD Untitled February 22, 1971 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection © Donald Judd/VAGA, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY Australia Photo by Erika Barahona-Ede © FMGB

Image: Bruce NAUMAN Floating Room (Light Outside, Dark Inside) 1972 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection © Bruce Nauman/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY Australia

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Image: Claes Oldenburg Soft Pay-Telephone, 1963 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, Gift, Ruth and Philip Zierler in memory of their dear departed son, William S. Zierler, 1980

Image: Andy WARHOL Electric Chair 1971 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Mr Peter M. Brant © Andy Warhol/ARS, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY Australia

Image: Jeff KOONS Sandwiches (from EasyFun-Ethereal) 2000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin © Jeff Koons

Image: Elger ESSER Ameland Pier X, Netherlands 2000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with funds contributed by the Photography Committee © Elger Esser/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia

Image: Thomas Demand Archive, 1995 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Collectors Council, 1997

Image: Matthew BARNEY The Cremaster Cycle The permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council and Executive Committee Members. © Matthew Barney

Image: Gregory CREWDSON Untitled, from the Twilight series 2001–02 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Purchased with funds contributed by the Photography Committee © Gregory Crewdson, courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York 2002.30