Salvador DALÍ<br/> <em>Trilogy of the desert: Mirage</em> (1946) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 36.1 x 59.3 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> The Eugenie Crawford Bequest, Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, The Nigel Peck AM and Patricia Peck Fund, Morry Fraid AM and The Spotlight Foundation, The Fox Family Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison, The Hansen Little Foundation, The Betsy and Ollie Polasek Endowment and donors to the 2018 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2018 NGV Annual Appeal, 2017<br /> 2017.453<br /> © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/VEGAP, Madrid. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia <!--131049-->
Salvador DALÍ
Trilogy of the desert: Mirage (1946)
oil on canvas
36.1 x 59.3 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Eugenie Crawford Bequest, Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, The Nigel Peck AM and Patricia Peck Fund, Morry Fraid AM and The Spotlight Foundation, The Fox Family Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison, The Hansen Little Foundation, The Betsy and Ollie Polasek Endowment and donors to the 2018 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2018 NGV Annual Appeal, 2017
2017.453
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/VEGAP, Madrid. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Collection

International Art

The scope of the International Art collection includes painting and sculpture from the early Middle Ages to 1980. It covers key movements and artists from across Europe, Great Britain and the United States, and seeks to build new knowledge through the acquisition of works from under-represented artists.

Curators

Ted Gott
Senior Curator, International Art

Laurie Benson
Curator, International Art

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

NGV International

French Impressionism

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 6 Jun – 5 Oct 25, ticketed
NGV International

Kimono

4 Jun – 5 Oct 25, ticketed
NGV International

Hans Arp

From the NGV Collection Until Feb, free entry
NGV International

International Art

From the NGV Collection Ongoing, free entry

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Ways of Making | Exploring Kusama with Nixi Killick

9.30am–4pm, 17 Jan, ticketed
Online
Yayoi Kusama: Online Course

10am, 28 Feb, ticketed
Online
Colour: Online Course

10am, 21 Mar, ticketed
Online
Educator Briefing | Kimono

4–5pm, 8 May, free entry

Collection Highlights

Giambattista TIEPOLO<br/> <em>The Banquet of Cleopatra</em> (1743-1744) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 250.3 x 357.0 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1933<br /> 103-4<br /> <!--4409--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/4409"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Banquet of Cleopatra
 (1743-1744) Thomas GAINSBOROUGH<br/> <em>Richard St George Mansergh-St George</em> (c. 1776-1780) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 230.2 x 156.1 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1922<br /> 1223-3<br /> <!--3971--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/3971"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
Richard St George Mansergh-St George
 (c. 1776-1780) REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Two old men disputing</em> (1628) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on wood panel<br /> 72.4 x 59.7 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1936<br /> 349-4<br /> <!--4291--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/4291"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Two old men disputing
 (1628) Claude MONET<br/> <em>Vétheuil</em> (1879) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 60.0 x 81.0 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1937<br /> 406-4<br /> <!--4191--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/4191"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Claude MONET
Vétheuil
 (1879) Francis BACON<br/> <em>Study from the human body</em> (1949) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 147.2 x 130.6 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1953<br /> 2992-4<br /> © Francis Bacon/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia <!--3761--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/3761"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Francis BACON
Study from the human body
 (1949) Pablo PICASSO<br/> <em>Weeping woman</em> (1937) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 55.2 x 46.2 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased by donors of The Art Foundation of Victoria, with the assistance of the Jack and Genia Liberman family, Founder Benefactor, 1986<br /> IC1-1986<br /> © Sucession Picasso/Copyright Agency <!--4256--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/4256"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Pablo PICASSO
Weeping woman
 (1937) Auguste RODIN<br/> <em>The thinker</em> (1881-1882); (1884) {cast} <!-- (front 3/4 left) --><br /> <em>(Le Penseur)</em><br /> bronze<br /> 71.6 x 38.3 x 57.7 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1921<br /> 1196-3<br /> <!--3582--><br/><a class="col-link block" href="/explore/collection/work/3582"><strong>Collection page <i class="fa fa-angle-right"></i></strong></a> Auguste RODIN
The thinker
(Le Penseur)
 (1881-1882); cast (1884)

Watch

Globe International Melbourne Now Art Tour – The European Grand Tour Art Highlights: The First Cloud & Anguish Louise Bouteiller’s Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante, reading Paul et Virginie With Senior Curator of International art, Ted Gott Edwin Landseer’s Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream With Senior Curator of International art, Ted Gott William Quiller Orchardson’s The First Cloud With Senior Curator of International art, Ted Gott Arthur Streeton’s Corfe Castle With Curator of International Art, Laurie Benson
Collection Focus: British Art

Explore historical British painting and sculpture at the NGV in detail, in which art offers perspectives into world history, politics, cultural change, family and nature across four centuries.

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Amorous soldiers and Amazons: queer tales from antiquity

Dr Ted Gott

 The rise and fall of Milan Memphis

Glenn Adamson

 George Nakashima and Isamu Noguchi: A Life Between

Amanda Dunsmore

 Annual Appeal 2023

Dr Ken Wach

 Artist Profile: Frank Lloyd Wright

Amanda Dunsmore

 Design through history : Shaker design and furniture

Peter Smyrl and Eloise Symrl

 Dame Elisabeth’s embroidered garden

Kate Douglas and Didee Knight

 The Interior Space

Dr Georgina Downey

Art Journal

Slow futures: time and techno-orientalist environmental threat in Yang Yongliang’s Phantom landscape

Dr LeiLani Nishime

 A dance of materials: between the organic and inorganic in Iris van Herpen’s fashion

Dr Anneke Smelik

 Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink

Dr Ted Gott

 Edwaert Collier Trompe l’œil with a letter rack holding newspapers, letters, writing equipment and a comb

Dr Ted Gott