DRESS (EVENING)
c. 1958
Medium
Oyster satin, fully embroidered pearl sequins, silver beads in scalloped pattern(Label Meredith H.K.)
Measurements
CB 111
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented under Tax Incentive Scheme by Mrs. M Lipshut, July 1984
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
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
BROOCH
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
DAMASK
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
(Mother and child)
E. Phillips FOX
Lace
(FRANCE)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Textile
William MORRIS
Beach dress
FRANCE
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Boots
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, London (fashion house); Vivienne WESTWOOD (designer)
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Black bunny ears hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Stephen JONES (designer)
BROCADE
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC