Plate for Somersault
1955-1956
Medium
zinc
Measurements
14.4 × 12.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AM in memory of Fred Williams through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2014
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Fred Williams
Learning Resource
The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series
Essay
Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
Essay
Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
Essay
Major early landscape by Fred Williams
Essay
Fred Williams’s Pilbara series
Exhibition
Fred Williams
Exhibition
Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection
Exhibition
Heroic Landscape: Williams, Streeton
Exhibition
Landfall
Exhibition
Treasures of a Decade
Essay
Framing the modern: Twentieth-century picture frames in Melbourne and beyond
Essay
Donald Laycock: Star cycle
Exhibition
Luminous
Essay
The violent vision of the 1940s
Essay
An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
Essay
Ocean beach, Sorrento
Essay
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: Painting in a changing landscape
Essay
‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
Essay
Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
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Ngayarta Kujarra
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The vision
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Face on a plate
Gareth SANSOM
Lady in grey
John LONGSTAFF
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Yellow
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Tea Trees near Cape Schanck, Victoria
Eugene von GUÉRARD
Bosch study #4
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Genesis
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Bosch study #1
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House
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Clouds
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Drinking
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October
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Spirits
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(A Moorish doorway)
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The pioneer
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Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
Robert DOWLING
Mordialloc Creek
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10 Rillington Place
Brett WHITELEY
Bosch study #3
Jon CATTAPAN
The communal mangle
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Dream pet
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Balancing
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Terum Singh 1917
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