Mask
c. 1946
Medium
Basket work, clay, pigments
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1964
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
Lipundja and unknown Yolngu artist: Mokuy figures
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‘Rembrandt by himself’: a brief history of the Melbourne portrait of Rembrandt by an unknown artist
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Unknown dressmaker Wedding outfit
Essay
Rethinking an unknown carte-de-visite
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The Art of Knitting
Exhibition
New Acquisitions: from the Department of Photography
Exhibition
Drysdale
Exhibition
Crafts Victoria ’75
Essay
A technical examination of William Blake’s Virgil wood engravings
Essay
William Blake and the NGV: the history of the Virgil wood engravings
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Colonial Crafts of Victoria
Exhibition
Laurie Wilson
Essay
Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture
Essay
The thought of the horse
Essay
Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion
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Trajan and the widow, a panel from a cassone
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Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels
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Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson
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Frank Lloyd Wright Vase
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Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
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The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)
Greg Semu
Wubarr ceremony
Thompson Yulidirri
Outfit: Brace jacket, Go west dress, Memory heart necklace and Big heart necklace
DORIS DE PONT, Auckland (fashion house); Doris DE PONT (designer)
The sighting
Greg Semu
Birth
Greg Semu
Munul yewala country
Paddy Jaminji
Pacific Transformer 4
Tama Sharman
Kennedy Space Centre, Fla. Apollo 15 lift-off 9.34am EDT. 26 July 1971
NASA, Washington, D.C. (manufacturer)
Yiwarra (Milky Way)
Norah Napaljarri Nelson
Pacific Transformer 2
Tama Sharman
No title (Queen of the Pacific, Lindeman Island)
E. G. ADAMSON
The arrival, diptych
Greg Semu
Light
Greg Semu
Pacific
Peter UPWARD
Brushing against flowers, fragrance permeates garments
KŌSEN Shōton
Gyro, table
Brodie NEILL (designer)
An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite and Other Islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans; including the Figures and Descriptions of One Hundred and Fifty Species of the more Splendid, Beautiful and Interesting Insects, Hitherto Discovered in those Countries…,
Edward DONOVAN
The mysterious basket
François BOUCHER
Mask fragment
Baining people, New Britain, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
Fa'afafine
Greg Semu
Death (La Pieta of the Raft)
Greg Semu
Pair of wine glasses
Andrew BROADWAY (designer); Annette WATT (designer)
A man of Van Diemen's Land
J. CALDWELL (engraver); John WEBBER (draughtsman)
Fern Tree Gully, Table Mountain, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land
John Skinner PROUT
H'nard K'nore G'nang G'nirl
PACIFIC SISTERS, New Zealand (art collective); Rosanna RAYMOND
Yari country
Rover Thomas
Pacific Transformer 3
Tama Sharman
The search
Greg Semu
Survival and atomic bombing
WORLD, Auckland (fashion house); Denise L'ESTRANGE-CORBET (designer); Francis HOOPER (designer); Reuben Paterson
Voyage of the Waka and the origin of the Dreaming
James Tylor (Possum)