I have been trying to find time ever since the arrival of the Tiepolo to send you a lin
In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a major painting by the French artist Bernard Buffet titled simply Owl, 1950 (fig. 1)
In 1944 the three Melbourne realist artists, Noel Counihan (1919–1986), Yosl Bergner (1920–) and Vic O’Connor (1918–) wrote, ‘We in fact work together as a group&
With the death of Dr Ursula Hoff in Melbourne on 10 January 2005, the National Gallery of Victoria has lost the person who, more than any other individual, shaped its…
When Isabella d’Este – marchesa of Mantua and one of the greatest collectors of her day – died in 1539, her belongings were divided among her heirs according to contemporary…
The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a fine portrait of a Mother and child (fig. 1) by the early seventeenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis de Vos.
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…
In late 2009 Mrs Alina Cade generously gave two extraordinary portraits by the renowned eighteenth-century British artist Joseph Wright of Derby: Self-portrait (fig.