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Ben Quilty The Unimpressionist

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The Golden Hour Australian Impressionism – Origins, Icons & Echoes

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Margaret Preston

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Extraordinary Women Works from the NGV Collection

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French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Melbourne Winter Masterpieces^® 2025

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French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson

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The Land is Us Stories, Place & Connection

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Emerging From Darkness Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque

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Watercolour Country 100 works from Hermannsburg

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The Joseph Brown Collection

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Pierre Bonnard Designed by India Mahdavi

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Pierre Bonnard Designed by India Mahdavi

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The Picasso Century

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The Picasso Century

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Australiana Designing a Nation

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She-Oak and Sunlight Australian Impressionism

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International Art

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Ivan Durrant Barrier draw

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Colin McCahon Letters and Numbers

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Hans and Nora Heysen Two Generations of Australian Art

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Visions of Paradise Indian Court Paintings

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Modern Australian Women Works from a Private Collection

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Baldessin / Whiteley Parallel Visions

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Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions

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MoMA at NGV 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Japonisme Japan and the Birth of Modern Art

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Del Kathryn Barton The Highway is a Disco

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Our Knowing and Not Knowing Helen Maudsley

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Gareth Sansom Transformer

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Van Gogh and the Seasons Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2017

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David Hockney Current

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Shut up and paint NGV COLLECTION

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John Olsen The You Beaut Country

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Luminous Australian Watercolours 1900–2000

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Whistler’s Mother

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Jan Senbergs Observation–Imagination

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Follow the Flag Australian Artists and War 1914–45

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Medieval Moderns The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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John Wolseley Heartlands and Headwaters

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The Kaleidoscopic Turn From the NGV Collection

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From the sacred to the profane The challenges and possibilities of Renaissance art

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Outer Circle The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists

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Robert Jacks Order and Variation

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Bushido Way of the Samurai

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Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado

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David McDiarmid When This You See Remember Me

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Late Modern and Contemporary Art

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Three Perfections Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting in Chinese Art 三绝：詩书画

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Visual Music Masters of Light and Colour

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Australian Impressionists in France

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Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

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Contemporary Asian & Pacific Art

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Radiance The Neo-Impressionists

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RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho

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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art

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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire

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Fred Williams Infinite Horizons

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The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910–37

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British Watercolours 1760–1900 The Age of Splendour

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10 ways to look at the past

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This Wondrous Land Colonial Art on Paper

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Vienna: Art & Design Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos

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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

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Living Water Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert

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Eugene von Guérard Nature Revealed

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Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine

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The Naked Face Self-portraits

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Unnerved The New Zealand Project

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Contemporary encounters

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Imagining the Orient

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European Masters Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century

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Rupert Bunny Artist in Paris

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Love, Loss & Intimacy

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Drape Classical Mode to Contemporary Dress

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Wisdom of the Mountain Art of the Ömie

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Chinoiserie Asia in Europe 1620–1840

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Salvador Dalí Liquid Desire

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The Gallery Ark

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The cricket and the dragon Animals in Asian Art

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Across the Desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia

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Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection

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Art Deco 1910–1939

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Moon in Reflection The art of Kim Hoa Tram

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Top Arts: VCE 2007

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Preserving the past, enriching the future Hugh Williamson’s legacy

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Black in Fashion Mourning to Night

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Modern Britain 1900–1960 Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections

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Krishna Love and Devotion

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An incomplete world Works from The UBS Art Collection

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Yvonne Audette Different Directions 1954–1966

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Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now New York–Venice–Bilbao–Berlin

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Australian Impressionism

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Top Arts: VCE 2006

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Lucio Fontana and John Nixon (A Dialogue)

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Charles Blackman Alice in Wonderland

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Picasso Love & War 1935–1945

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Rembrandt 1606-1669 From the Prints and Drawings collection

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Top Arts: VCE 2005

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Mountains and Streams Chinese Paintings from the Asian Collection

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Pissarro: The First Impressionist A Retrospective Exhibition

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Exiles and Emigrants Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era

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Martin Grant Paris

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Margaret Preston Art and Life

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British Art & the 60s from Tate Britain

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Dutch Masters From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Top Arts: VCE 2004

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Colour Power Aboriginal art post 1984

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Plein-air painting in Europe 1780-1850

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Rajput Sons of Kings

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James Gleeson Beyond the Screen of Sight

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Edvard Munch The Frieze of Life

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Allan Mitelman Works on Paper 1967-2004

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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque

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The Impressionists Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay

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2004 Australian Culture Now

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The Art of Zen From the Asian Collection

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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

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Top Arts: VCE 2003

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Darkness & Light Caravaggio & his World

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Lionel Lindsay An Antipodean in Spain

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Jackson Pollock Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952

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Resonance Highlights of the Asian Collection

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Fraught Tales Four Contemporary Narratives

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Peter Booth Human/Nature

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Charles Conder 1868-1909

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Remembering Barak

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Colin McCahon A Question of Faith

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Sidney Nolan Desert and Drought

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Rover Thomas I want to paint

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Seeing the Centre The art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959

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Bushfire Our community responds

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Spring Flowers, Autumn Grass

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Top Arts: VCE 2001

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From the World of Beautiful Shadows The circle of Julia Margaret Cameron in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

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Top Arts: VCE 2000

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CommonWealth A Tribute to Federation

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Colin McCahon A time for messages

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Rover & Queenie

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Top Arts: VCE 1999

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Nolan: Wimmera Landscapes

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Emotionally charged 19th century Australian and European paintings from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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1999 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award MOMA at Heide

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Treasures of Asian Art Selections from the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York

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New Worlds from Old 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes

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Imperial Austria Treasures of Art, Arms and Armour from the State of Styria

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Russell Drysdale 1912–1981

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Imaging the Land

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Rembrandt: A Genius and his Impact

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I Had A Dream Australian Art in the 1960s

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A Marriage of Styles British Art of the 1950s and 1960s

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Modern Masters from the Museum of Modern Art The William S. Paley Collection

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Beauty in Truth The Botanical Art of Margaret Stones

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The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

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Fred Williams A Working Method

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Arthur Streeton 1867–1943

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Robert MacPherson 1975–1995

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Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours

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Narratives, Nudes and Landscapes French 19th Century Art

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Power to the People The Art of Mike Brown

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E. Phillips Fox 1865 – 1915

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Eunos Presents Renoir Master Impressionist

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Charles Blackman Schoolgirls and Angels

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Esso Presents Rubens and the Italian Renaissance

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Being and Nothingness Bea Maddock – Work From Three Decades

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Uncommon Australians Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery

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Albert Tucker A Retrospective

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Donald Friend 1915–1989 Retrospective

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German Expressionism The Colours of Desire

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William Blake in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Irises and Five Masterpieces

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Masterpieces from the Hermitage, Leningrad Western European Art of the 15th - 20th Centuries

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John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition

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The ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions

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Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends A retrospective exhibition: 1937 – 1987

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Golden Summers Heidelberg and Beyond

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Yosl Bergner A Retrospective Exhibition

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Turner Abroad France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland

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Victorian Vision 1834 Onwards

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Sidney Nolan: The City and the Plain

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The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition

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Japan Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection

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Town, Country, Shore & Sea British Drawings and Watercolours from Anthony Van Dyck to Paul Nash

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Lina Bryans A Retrospective Exhibition

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Some Recent Acquisitions 1979–1981

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Australian Colonial Portraits

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Survey 8: Ivan Durrant

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Treasures of a Decade

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The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle

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Hans Heysen Centenary Retrospective 1877–1977

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Mike Brown Embracing Chaos, a Survey of Work 1961 – 1977

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British Painting 1600–1800

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Illusion and Reality

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M. Napier Waller 1893-1972

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Heritage of American Art Paintings from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen

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Australian Art in the 1870s

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Victorian Olympians

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Modern Masters Manet to Matisse

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Master of Suiboku

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The First Leasing Art Prize

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Arthur Boyd’s Australia

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Lloyd Rees Retrospective

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Frances Hodgkins 1869 – 1947 A Centenary Exhibition

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The Aubrey Gibson Collection

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Portraits of Newsmakers Commissioned for the Covers of TIME, The Weekly News Magazine

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Belvedere Op Art Exhibition

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Marcel Duchamp The Mary Sisler Collection, 78 works 1904–1963

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Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition Paintings from 1937–1967

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Abstract Watercolours by 14 Americans

Essays

A Most Famous Painter

Scorticato Mimmo Paladino

Sophonisba receiving the poison Mattia Preti

Introducing Wilfredo Lam

Modern Australian women

Claude Flight’s painting lesson

The sublime world of Agnes Martin

Conserving Streeton’s iconic Australian landscape

Arthur Streeton’s The purple noon’s transparent might

150 years of Impressionism

The lasting friendships of Australia’s Impressionist pioneers

Lee Krasner’s Combat

Finding light in the shadows: the cleaning and restoration of Tiepolo’s The banquet of Cleopatra

Buying for the future: Mary Woodall and Italian Old Master paintings

No form can be spatial: the origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept

From the archives: the writing of Ursula Hoff

Emerging from Darkness at Hamilton Art Gallery

Beneath Italian skies

Anticipatory magic

Kay Sage: Other answers

Conserving Peter Upward’s Pacific 1972–73

Peter Upward Pacific 1972–73

Tell me about Eugène Boudin

Emmeline Pritchard Botanical Gardens, Melbourne 1874

Emma Soyer The escape: a young girl with a bird cage 1836

Conserving Murillo’s The Immaculate Conception

The divine Sarah and the artist Louise

Sunrise after a squally night

A tale of a frame

Sylvia Pankurst, The chainmaker

Gemma Smith, Bask

Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture Breeze Barrington

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Officer and waitress 2025 Annual Appeal

Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion Pompeo Batoni

The crucifixion Paolo Veneziano

Saint Sebastian being cured by Irene Luca Giordano

The burning of a heretic Sassetta

Trajan and the widow, a panel from a cassone The Master of the Santa Felicità Adoration of the Magi

Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses Francesco Francia, Giacomo Francia & Giulio Francia

Gaetano II Sforza Cesarini, Duke of Segni Pompeo Batoni

Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels Paris Bordone

Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson

Gemma Smith Bask

Matthew Harris The British Museum

Elizabeth Emma Soyer The escape

Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef

Doge Pietro Loredano Jacopo Tintoretto

The finding of the true cross Cola dell'Amatrice

The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas Poussin

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Baptist, Saint James of Compostela and Saint Nicholas of Bari Agnolo Gaddi

Filippo Neri Italy/Spain

Crucifixion Prospero Mallerini

River landscape with Tiburtine Temple at Tivoli Claude Lorrain

The Holy Family of Francis I, St Elizabeth, Saint John and the infant Christ Giulio Romano

Study for St John the Baptist Andrea del Sarto

When Crowley Met Balson

Haunted objects

Art in the continuum of nature

Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert Amedeo Modigliani

The Mocking of Christ Orazio Gentileschi

Piazza d’Italia Giorgio de Chirico

The three Marys at the sepulchre Franceso Romanelli

Mystic marriage of St Catherine Lavinia Fontana

St George slaying the dragon Paolo Uccello

A monk with a book Titian

Charity Alessandro Turchi

Madonna in prayer Sassoferrato

Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta Canaletto

Ruins of the Forum, Rome Bernardo Bellotto

The Cumaean Sibyl delivering the Oracles Giovanni Paolo Panini

Luigi Boccherini Italy

Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends Jacopo Amigoni

Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist Correggio

Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso and Battista Dossi

Martyrdom of St Lawrence Jusepe de Ribera

The Banquet of Cleopatra Giambattista Tiepolo

Madonna and Child with three angels Cosimo di Lorenzo Rosselli

Shedding new light on James Tissot’s An interesting story

Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903

The Interior Space

The rise and fall of Glyn Philpot

Queering the family portrait: Jacopo Amigoni’s portrait of Farinelli and friends

Hidden behind the candlelight

Global trade and the rise of luxury

A Studio of Their Own: Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani

Women and Dutch still life painting

The articulate landscape of Thomas Clark

In her likeness: Recasting the stories of famous women in art

‘Who was this talented Maria Margaretha la Fargue?’

Stories of a collection: How Boston embraced Impressionism

Spectrum: An Exploration of Colour

NGV x MECCA: Louise Zhang

What is in a title? Dick Watkins’s Rain in West Pymble

Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story

Outside the harbour

Man reading a newspaper

Two chairs on fire

Portrait of the artist’s son, Bartholomew Beale

Musical moments

The lady in white

Portrait of a lady

Still life, beetroots

Southwold, Suffolk

Small man in a landscape

Aliens at prayer

The house of Derain at Chambourcy (La Maison de Derain, Chambourcy)

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Gäna (Self)

Robert Jacks Temple gate

Louise Bouteiller Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante reading Paul et Virginie

Living annotations (for Clare Milledge)

A trick of the eye: illusion, mimicry and camouflage in nature and art

Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny

Behind the lines

Prisoners and internees

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance

Aboriginal Feminism and Gender

Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture

Away with the fairies. Edwin Landseer’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, 1848–1851

Magical transformations: Yawkyawk and Ngalyod become art

Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi

The artist’s daughter

David Hockney Sunflowers

G. F. Watts’s portrait of May Prinsep: a colonial orphan at the NGV

‘Mr Cooper’s interesting present’: likeness and learning in William Dyce’s Portrait of HRH the Prince of Wales, 1848, National Gallery of Victoria

‘Rich, effective pictorial pageantry’: Augustus John’s Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer, 1909

Portrait of the artist as hero: Margaret Thomas’s portraits of Charles Summers

Françoise Gilot Blue eyes (Les yeux bleus)

Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection

Erich Heckel Great dancing pair (Grosses tanzpaar) and Landscape by the firth of Flensburg (Landschaft an der forde)

Oscar Domínguez’s La couturière: contexts, sources and symbols

Donald Laycock: Star cycle

‘Le nostre done cornute’

A fresh profile

Clifford Bayliss Untitled

Conservation live: the John Herbert Public Conservation Project

Unrolled: John Rogers Herbert and the monumental Moses in the National Gallery of Victoria

Artistic souls: Edward Burne-Jones and his portrait of Baronne Deslandes

In defence of Australian Minimalism: Guy Stuart’s Lock Span, 1969

E. Phillips Fox Dolly, daughter of Hammond Clegg Esq.

Zhu Qizhan Mountain landscape

Constance Jenkins, her painting Friendly critics and the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Virgin and Child, by a follower of Jan van Eyck: a continuing reassessment

Three illustrated publications by officers of the First Fleet

Eyre Crowe’s A sheep shearing match

Angela de la Cruz’s Loose fit (Blue)

Sassoferrato at the National Gallery of Victoria

A Nabob’s return: the Pybus conversation piece by Nathaniel Dance

Fragile memories: Keith Haring and the Water Window Mural at the National Gallery of Victoria

Finding light in the shadows: the cleaning and restoration of Tiepolo’s The banquet of Cleopatra

Zen on life: spirituality in the art of Kim Hoa Tram

Imperial fashion victims in provincial Egypt: re-dating Egyptian mummy potraits

Desirable Things, the private collection of Alfred Felton

Buying for the Future, Mary Woodall and Italian old master paintings

The Last Big Artist in Paris, Bernard Buffet

Revisiting Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall

A human, democratic art: three realist artists 1944–1947

No Form Can Be Spatial, The origins of Lucio Fontana’s Spatial concept

Charles Blackman’s Feet beneath the table

Albert Tucker’s City

Nakahara Nantenbo’s The stick of Nantenbo (Nanten staff)

A Knight in Shining Armour, a Virgin – Uccello’s Melbourne Saint George and the dragon and Oxford Annunciation

The Riddle of the Sphinx: An Attic red-figure lekythos

A Paestan Vase by Python: In memory of Dale Trendall

Wu Zhen’s Bamboo in spring rain

Edward Burne-Jones’s Portrait of Baronne Madeleine Deslandes

Shark People: Djapu painting and the Miny’tji Buku Larrŋgay Collection

A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard

Embodied Modernism: Visual arts and the aesthetics of Roger Kemp and Rudolf Steiner

Paysages de Mer: Courbet’s The wave

Paris Bordone’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Jusepe de Ribera’s Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Robert Dowling’s Masters George, William, and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware

Raising the Flag of Modernism: Ben Nicholson’s 1938

Military Objectives: Some reflections on the forgotten Second World War artist Louis Duffy

Depictions of Aboriginal People in Colonial Australian Art: Settler and unsettling narratives in the works of Robert Dowling

The Melbourne Finding of Moses: steps towards a new attribution

Two New Attributions: a Tocqué and a Bellotto in Melbourne

Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman

Japanese Horse stable

Amédée Ozenfant’s Nature morte

Margaret Preston’s Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales

A Powerful Appearance of Life: Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and child

Bilda Miburiji Kurrij (Seeing with Far Eyes): The Root of Kaiadilt Women’s Art

Manuel Ocampo’s A painting for a proposed sculpture for a monument to a crucified minimalist sculpture

A Processional cross attributed to Bernardo Daddi and his workshop

Francesco, Giacomo and Giulio Francia Virgin and Child with the young Saint John in a garden of roses

At the edge of empires: a Biedermeier portrait from Trieste by Jožef Tominc

Thomas Girtin The stepping stones on the Wharfe, above Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

Tony Tuckson Untitled – yellow

Yang Yongliang Phantom landscape

A masterpiece revealed: Joseph Wright of Derby in Melbourne

Seeing into the past: an enquiry into the compositional development of Robert Dowling’s Tasmanian Aborigines

Collecting the forties in the eighties

Gustave Caillebotte The plain of Gennevilliers, yellow fields

Arthur Loureiro Marie Therese Smith

Devotion and idolatry: the conflicting purposes of a nineteenth-century Indian deity album

The cult of the queen empress: royal portraiture in colonial Victoria

The watershed: Two Decades of American Painting at the National Gallery of Victoria

Land, loss and identity: art of a great Pintupi lineage

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Lavinia Fontana Europe's first professional woman painter

Australian Impressionism 9 by 5 frames Recreating a frame

Lillie Williamson’s frames A conservator’s insight

Women Collectors of Impressionism and the MFA Presented by Maureen Melton, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Monet in place Presented by Dr Katie Hanson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Australian Impressionism exhibition tour A curator's perspective

The Female Australian Impressionists Pivotal painters

Charles Conder’s Hot Wind and the femme fatale A curator’s perspective

Victorian Artists Society on painting en plein air Continuing the Impressionists' legacy

Mary Tonkin on painting en plein air Continuing the Impressionists' legacy

Adam Pyett on landscape painting Continuing the Impressionists' legacy

Helen Maudsley’s Artistic lady With NGV Curator

A father paints his daughter | Susanna Highmore With Assistant Curator Dr. Maria Quirk

Clarice Beckett | A leading artist With Curator Beckett Rozentals

Florence Fuller’s Paper boy | Melbourne in 1888 Perspectives from an NGV Curator and Conservator

Monet’s Vétheuil | An idyllic scene With NGV Senior Curator Ted Gott

Perfecting Compositions with Lucy Roleff

Whiteley’s Lasting Legacy Wendy Whiteley

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert

Helen Maudsley Our Knowing and Not Knowing

Françoise Gilot Life of a painter

Driven, curious & risk-taking David Hockney

Whistler’s Mother: An icon Dr Isobel Crombie

Why Australian Painting Matters Patrick McCaughey

Tom Roberts: naturalistic bent Curator Talk

Immersive spaces for paintings Rosslynd Piggott

E. Philips Fox: A celebration of colour Curator Talk

John Glover: An English artist painting Australia Curator Talk

Henry Burn: In search of gold Curator Talk

Arthur Streeton: Celebrated, praised and loved Curator Talk

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George W. Lambert: Australia’s first celebrity artist Curator Talk

Frederick McCubbin: The Pioneer Curator Talk

Grace Cossington Smith: A remarkable story in Australian art Curator Talk

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Writing about war inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman, 1937 Levels 9-10

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Short-form poetry with Kim Hoa Tram’s Pine with cranes dancing in the snow, dance in motion, 2000 Levels 6-9

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Creative writing and effective interviewing inspired by William Quiller Orchardson’s The First Cloud, 1887 Levels 9-10

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Colony to Nation Levels 5-6

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Colony to Nation Changes to Australia’s Environment Levels 5-6

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Colony to Nation Immigration Levels 5-6

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Descriptive writing inspired by John Brack’s Collins St, 5p.m. Art and English

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End of school day, 3p.m: Inspired by John Brack’s Collins Street, 5p.m. Levels 3-6

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The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series Levels 2-6

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Pop art portraits: Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Self-portrait No. 9 Levels 1-4

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Emotions in art Levels P-3

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Expressive skies: Inspired by Impressionism Levels 4-6

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Dramatic animal painting Levels P-2

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Tissue collage: Inspired by Impressionism Levels 2-6

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Abstraction action: Inspired by Melinda Harper Levels 1-3

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Distorted cities Levels 4-6

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Mount Kosciusko: Seen from the Victorian border (Mount Hope Ranges) Levels 3-8

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Weatherboard Creek Falls: Constructing a view Levels 9-12

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Monet’s Garden: Art projects for primary schools Levels P-6

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Howard Arkley Levels 5-12