UNDER BODICE
c. 1929
Medium
Cream printed cotton, round neckline, part of Child's National Costume (acc.# D022A-I)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs D. Trainor, 1980
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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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
Explore the collection
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
LENGTH OF FABRIC
Dress
ENGLAND
Dress
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
SHOE
DAMASK
Jumpsuit
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Skin heel boots
FECAL MATTER, Montreal (fashion house); Steven Raj BHASKARAN (designer); Hannah DALTON (designer)
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
FRAGMENT
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
(Mother and child)
E. Phillips FOX
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)