Prints & Drawings

The National Gallery of Victoria recently purchased a copy of Oskar Kokoschka’s book Die träumenden Knaben (The dreaming boy

In 1891 and 1892 a group of sixty-four prints was acquired that formed the foundation of the NGV’s now-renowned holdings…

Pierre Jean François TURPIN French 1775–1840 Oxyanthus early 19th century watercolour, pencil, pen and ink Presented through the NGV Foundation…

Georges Hugnet was an artist, poet, historian and publisher associated with French Surrealism.

J. M. W. Turner made several trips to Switzerland, where the alpine landscape inspired some of his most remarkable work….

Barak’s drawing style, evident in this late career drawing, is vigorous, eloquent and reliant upon strong, textural outlin

Illustrated storybooks are often a child’s first encounter with works of ar

In the eighty etchings that make up his Caprichos series, Francisco Goya ridiculed human follies, vices and the hypocrisy he…

One of the NGV’s greatest treasures is its collection of thirty-six William Blake watercolours illustrating Dante’s Divine Com

Jess Johnson creates fantastic worlds in installations and images that depict objects and figures in stage-like spaces.

Terra Spiritus … with a darker shade of pale is a conceptual, artistic and technical tour de force and the…

In 1852 Eugène von Guérard came from Germany to make his fortune on the Victorian goldfields, an unsuccessful venture that…

Members of the First Fleet were well aware of the importance of the venture in which they were participating.

While sumo wrestlers originally competed in sponsored tournaments within the grounds of shrines and temples in Japan, by the early…

This watercolour is the earliest Australian work in the NGV Collection.

During the eighteenth century painted and engraved views of Rome were popular among visitors to the city, in particular the wealthy…

Alfred Felton has long been recognised as the benefactor who transformed the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

At the age of seventy-five the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about…

By the early 1960s Jasper Johns had introduced a new subject matter of mundane, everyday objects into American art.

In his 1953 publication on the drawings of Parmigianino (Girolamo Maria Francesco Mazzola) (1503–1540), A.

Portrait of a young woman, after Cranach the Younger, II is Picasso’s interpretation of a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas…

With his unique social observations, innovative approach to design and mastery of the brush, Katsushika Hokusai created some of the…

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was interested in the expression of fundamental human emotions, such as despair, fear, melancholy and…

Emil Todt, the German sculptor whose plaster figure group The gold diggers (fig.

Kiki Smith’s fascination with issues of mortality and physical transformation is a recurrent theme within her artistic practic

Maurice Denis’s suite of thirteen colour lithographs, Amour, is one of the great print albums produced in Paris in the…

Dennis Nona is at the forefront of a group of contemporary Torres Strait artists who have invigorated printmaking with a…

The Department of International Painting and Sculpture in collaboration with the Departments of Photography and Prints and Drawings have recently…

Commissioned to produce a large-scale drawing for Melbourne Now, Jan Senbergs has created a panoramic four panel work Extended Melbourne…

Then very Love knelt down beside the maid and on her breast a hand unfelt he laid, And drew the…

In August 2009 the NGV launched a new supporters group for the Prints and Drawings collection and, to mark the…

Brent Harris will be exhibiting a set of seven monotypes, the fall (set one), 2012 in Melbourne Now, together with…

Since the 1970s Elizabeth Gower has created and exhibited intricate collages, composed from detritus of everyday life which she carefully…

Laith McGregor grew up in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in 2002.

The exhibition Print Works: The Douglas Kagi Donation celebrates the gift to the Gallery of a major collection of more…

In the summer of 1800 Thomas Girtin toured the north of England making pencil sketches and studies in coloured wash…

千載具眼の徒を竢つ Sensai gugan no to o matsu [My work will wait 1000 years before

The Drop-by drawing workshop at the NGV will enable participants to build a brief insight into the dynamic of drawing….

Robin Rhode: The Call of The Walls is one of many fantastic family friendly experiences the National Gallery of Victoria…

Image: In the guise of fashion illustration Leo interrogates street culture and imagery and posts these drawings regularly on his…

 Classic stripes Navy blue and white is never out of style

 Welcome to the future Google ‘Pierre Cardin 1969’ and take a trip into the future because the first thing you…

In the guise of fashion illustration Leo interrogates street culture and imagery and posts these drawings regularly on his blog…

In the guise of fashion illustration Leo interrogates street culture and imagery and posts these drawings regularly on his blog…

An invitation to draw for the NGV Blog during the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2013, brought back some memori

In recent years the Joe White Bequest has enabled the acquisition of significant early works on paper for the collection….

At the end of 1922, only several months after Wassily Kandinsky had taken up a teaching position at the Bauhaus…

The days aren’t different enough nos 1–4, 2009–10, is a group of four bronze casts of cardboard archery targets found…

In April 1877 Archibald Michie, during his term as agent-general in London for Victoria (1873–79), acquired at auction for the…

When you visit the Napoleon exhibition, look closely at the small black & white drawing by Naudet of Napoleon crossing…