HANDKERCHIEF
1956
Medium
Printed novelty handkerchief - How to cure a hangover.Label:Made in Switzerland, purchased at Georges
Measurements
L 34 × W 34 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Mrs Jean Oberhansli, December 1981
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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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
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Iris, platform sandals
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
CAMEL CLOTH
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Dress
MOSCHINO, Milan (fashion house); Franco MOSCHINO (designer)
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Lace
(FRANCE)
SEAT
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
BROCADE
BROOCH
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Dress
ULYANA SERGEENKO, Russia (fashion house); Ulyana SERGEENKO (designer)
Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
DAMASK