Donna BAILEY<br/> <em>Lush</em> (2002) <!-- (recto) --><br /> type C photograph<br /> 50.3 x 65.0 cm irreg. (image) 61.7 x 76.2 cm irreg. (sheet)<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2006<br /> 2006.295<br /> © Donna Bailey <!--81174-->
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Introduction

  1. Birth of a Mother
  2. Milk
  3. Baby Bubble
  4. Supermum
  5. Bad Mother
  6. Magic Maker
  7. Invisible Mother
  8. My Mother
  9. To Love and to Lose
  10. Maternal Legacies

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Honoré DAUMIER
My wife has been a long time at this banquet….It's been the best part of forty-eight hours
(Ma femme reste bien long-temps à ce banquet..... voilà bientôt quarante huit heures qu'elle est partie!)
 (1849)
plate no. 10 from the Les femmes socialistes (Socialist women) series

Medium
hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic

Measurements
24.3 × 21.2 cm irreg. (image) 28.4 × 21.2 cm (image and text) 32.7 × 23.1 cm irreg. (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1930

Gallery location
Gallery 14
Level 3, NGV Australia

About this work

In plate ten from his Socialist Women series, Honoré Daumier depicts the perceived consequences of the rebellion against husbands: children are neglected, and the household falls into disarray while the lonesome husband ponders his wife’s whereabouts.