The acquisition last year of two paintings by Huang Pin-hung (1864–1955) was made possible by the Felton Beques
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 1975 encompasses essays that discuss works from a variety of areas across the NGV’s collection: Martin Butlin appraises a newly-discovered masterpiece by…
The National Gallery of Victoria is unique amongst the public galleries of Australia in its efforts to build up a fine and representative collection of decorative arts
Note In accordance with the tradition of Chinese handscroll painting, the illustrations on the blue-and-white Wine jar have a clockwise, directional
A post-Surrealist game of consequences and sequences followed the meeting of George Baldessin and Imants Tillers at the Sao Paolo Biennale of 1975
Zhu Da or Bada Shanren (1626–1705) (fig. 1), a noted eccentric, ‘had the genius of an immortal who disguised himself as a calligrapher and a pai
The latter half of the 1970s was a particularly busy period for Fred Williams: with his wife Lyn he made a number of trips to Europe and the United States; his exhibition…
The Birds in a winter landscape (fig. 1), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1990, is among the major works of Lu Ji (c. 1440–
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
After a century of civil wars, the Tokugawa shoguns (military rulers) of the Edo period (1615–1868) unified Japan and brought about more than 250 years of peace and prospe
This pair of screens illustrates the characteristic elegance, stylisation and flat surface design of Japanese art
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
When Karl von Piloty’s large canvas painting Beneath the arena, 1882, arrived in Melbourne in 1888 to be exhibited at the German Gallery of the Centennial International Exhibition, it was greeted with excitement and…
Surrounded by a moon-like halo, the visionary figure of the White-Robed Guanyin is shown seated in contemplation in a cave-like setting by a swelling ocea
From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin