Artwork Details
Purchased, 1947
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
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Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
CANDLESTICK
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
DECANTER JUG
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Belt buckle (Exotic fruit)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
MEASURE WITH LID
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
WINE CAN
Zurich (manufacturer)
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
SPURS
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
MEDALLION PORTRAIT
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
The victory of faith
St George HARE