Nothing is more exciting for the lover of art than the totally unexpected appearance of a masterpiece by a great artist. That two such masterpieces by J. M. W

In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s art was added by courtesy of the Felton Bequest to the fine collection of one hundred and twenty etchings by the master held in…

In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich

In the major libraries of Australia there are sets of remarkable photographs of aborigines taken between 1868 and 1876 in Grafton, New South Wales, by John William Lindt.

The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…

The legend of John Peter Russell has many attractive aspects, but none more so than his friendship with Vincent Van Gogh.

One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…

The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.

In 1879, when he was just thirty-one years of age, the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honour, signalling the immense breadth of his popularity

In 1960 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired, through the Felton Bequest, a particularly fine Florentine Book of Hours formerly in the Dyson Perrins collection.1 MS

La corrida toute entière baigne dans une atmosphere érotique – Michel Leiris, Miroir de la tauromachie,

The Department of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, in recent years has acquired three important Indian paintings and a related drawing belonging to the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605)R

A post-Surrealist game of consequences and sequences followed the meeting of George Baldessin and Imants Tillers at the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1975

When Boccaccio wrote his book, De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women) (after 1351), Cleopatra was the epitome of Luxuria, that medieval vice pictured as a bejewelled naked women, the embodiment of extravagant…

If we were not in the presence of the paintings, as we are so appropriately this evening, and were asked to describe the characteristic manner of Fred Williams, we would, perhaps, conjure…