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Collection Highlights

John BRACK
Collins St, 5p.m.
 1955 Katsushika HOKUSAI
The great wave off Kanagawa
 (c. 1830)
from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji series 1826-33 Emily Kam Kngwarray
Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming)
 1995 Lee KRASNER
Combat
 1965 Yayoi KUSAMA
Flower obsession
 (2016-2017) Pablo PICASSO
Weeping woman
 (1937) Margaret PRESTON
Flannel flowers
 1938 Grace Cossington SMITH
The Bridge in-curve
 (1930) Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Banquet of Cleopatra
 (1743-1744) John William WATERHOUSE
Ulysses and the Sirens
 1891

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Joris Laarman Microstructures, aluminium gradient chair, structural prototype

By Simone LeAmon

 Maarten Baas Grandfather clock

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 Encountering art in the people’s gallery: Grant and Mary Featherston and the interior furnishing and fit-out of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1966–68

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 Between Beauty and Power: Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman as an emblem of the National Gallery of Victoria’s modernity, 1959–68

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The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection

Acquired by the NGV from 2015 with the support of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, in memory of her late husband Harold Campbell-Pretty, The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection is an acknowledgment of the growing importance of archival resources within museums today.

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