In this third and final chapter on Salvador Dalí, his life and the painting Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, NGV Senior Fundraising Officer, Caroline Buckley, explores Dalí’s influence and…
In our second feature on Salvador Dalí and his work, Dr Ted Gott, NGV Senior Curator of International Art, looks closely at Dalí’s Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, and…
Thomas Woolner was born in the small market town of Hadleigh, Suffolk, in 1825, and commenced studies at London’s Royal Academy in 1842 while working as an apprentice to sculptor…
Introduction In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria made a significant addition to its growing and increasingly important collection of Surreal objects with the acquisition of Óscar Domínguez’s La couturière…
Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern
Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…
A new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady For the past sixty years the National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Profile…
A group of people stand in an empty gallery. The house lights are on and the walls are bare. There is no art on display.
INSPIRED IDEAS: Explore the portrait Degas is celebrated for his penetrating psychological portraits
INSPIRED IDEAS – Explore the portrait René, you’re such a poseur… “René used to tell us how no sooner had he put his books down when he got in from…
The acquisition in 1878 of John Herbert’s painting Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law, c.1872–78, was an important moment in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collecting hi
As an artist who places her own life at the centre of her practice, Tracey Emin is renowned for working within the historical lineages of expressionism.
Situated precariously outside the protective arm of Signal Hill, trapped between the outer mountainous circle of Cape Town and the vast curve of the Atlantic Ocean, sits the idyllic but exposed…
In November 2014, in the National Gallery of Victoria’s storage facility in North Melbourne, a large canvas was unrolled for the first time in more than twenty-five yea
William Larkin was one of the most accomplished portrait painters of Jacobean England, yet remains an enigmatic figure.