Group of buttons
Medium
agate, metal
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Estate of Miss Una Teague, 1969
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
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Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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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’
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Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
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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
Explore the collection
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Jumpsuit
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
CAP
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
Dress
ULYANA SERGEENKO, Russia (fashion house); Ulyana SERGEENKO (designer)
Dress
GUCCI, Florence (fashion house)
LENGTH OF FABRIC
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
FRAGMENT
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
PANEL
(TURKEY)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE