NIGHTDRESS
1945
Medium
Peach, bias cut, tucked / embroidered bodice, shoulder straps & neckline scalloped, ties at waist
Measurements
CB.146cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Margaret Price, 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
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Day dress
(FRANCE)
Textile
William MORRIS
FRAGMENT
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Bonnet
FRANCE
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Boots
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Sarah BURTON (designer)
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
DAMASK
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK