Towards the close of 1891, Odilon Redon wrote to express thanks to André Mellerio for his friendship, his connoisseurship and the support of his critical energies:  My dear Mellerio, I got home yesterday,…

   This Melbourne painting (fig. 1)* belongs to a group of pictures by Fuseli depicting episodes in the life of Milt

A figure study by Camille Pissarro recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria is not only the first drawing by this major draughtsman of the second half of the 19th century…

Sir Jacob Epstein’s reputation as a sculptor rests chiefly on his prolific output of exuberant and expressive portraits and, to an extent, has been consolidated by the frequent controversy attending the realisation…

In December 1982, The Art Foundation of Victoria purchased a group of 19th century photographs, including some large calotypes (from waxed paper negatives) by Dr John Murray and Captain Linnaeus Tripe, of…

The National Gallery of Victoria recently acquired its most important example of early Indian sculpture, a freestanding male figure produced at Mathura in north India during the Kushān period, 1st to 3rd…

The major frustration for students of the revolutionary 1940s has been that its most important work has remained largely hidden until the last two years

Download This edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria includes an introduction by Director Daryl Lindsay and discussion of the following works: Portrait of a man…

This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 26 focuses on a variety of Australian works in the collection, ranging from colonial landscapes and realistic portraiture to contemporary sculpture and…

This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 28 is dedicated to Ursula Hoff, whose work on the Bulletin transformed it from a six-page quarterly brochure into the journal it…

Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…

On 10 March 1853 the French ship Vesta arrived in Port Phillip from Sydney, en route to Le Havre. Among the cabin passengers were ‘Mr and Mrs Montefiore and famil

The history of painting since Manet (assuming that Manet’s Olympia is, as Malraux declared, the beginning of modern art) appears as a series of technical revolutions, competitively iconoclastic, tending to extremism, each…

Modern scholarship has increasingly focussed attention on the interrelationship of the arts, on the ways in which, for example, the visual arts may complement or inform literary discours

Download This edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria includes discussion of the following works and collections: Portrait of a man by El Greco; The Old…