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Insult to injury
Francisco de Goya, 1746, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza – 1828, Bordeaux | Grande hazaña! con muertos! (An heroic feat! With dead men!)1810–15 | Plate 39 from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War),...
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The Seventh Seal
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (Revelation 8:1) Looking at Albrecht Dürer’s representations of the ‘last days’ – as described in...
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More than just the sum of their parts
Elisabeth Chapman | Coverlet commemorating Wellington (detail) c.1829 | Cotton | Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Given by Gwendolyn Baker in memory of her husband, Stephen Baker | ©...
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Take a walk through ‘Quilts’
[Left] Coverlet with Sundail, ‘MCM’, Britain, dated 1797 | Cotton | Given by GL Hanneford | Conserved with the support of the Aurelius Charitable Trust | © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Following...
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Popular Prints and Patchwork in 18th – 19th century Britain
Coverlet with King George III Reviewing the Troops 1803-05 | © Victoria and Albert Museum, London In his political sonnet England in 1819 the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)...
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Ever Present
Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Austria 1839-1911 | (Young lady wearing hakama kimono) (from ‘Japan’ album) mid 1870s | hand-coloured albumen photograph on board (originally bound in an album)...
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Recent Acquisition | The Americans
Robert Frank | Parade – Hoboken, New Jersey 1955, in The Americans, first edition, GrovePress, New York, 1959 | Purchased 2013 with funds from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu through the Queensland Art...
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The Quilt
Patchwork of suiting fabrics and dress cottons (detail) | Elizabeth Magill (1888–1987), Belfast, Northern Ireland 1930s | Cotton and wool | Courtesy of Board of Trustees of National Museums Northern...
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Recent Acquisition | Two lithographs (after Degas)
Georges William Thornley, France 1857-1935 (after Edgar Degas) | Les Jockeys (The jockeys) c.1888–89 | Crayon manner lithograph (from transfer paper); printed in red/brown ink on paper (chine collé),...
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Last days: Quilts 1700-1945
Cot cover | Priscilla Redding (1654–1723), Kent, England 1690–1720 | Silk | Given by Mary Ann Thomas | Collection and © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Quilts stimulate memories of warmth, comfort...
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The Expressionists: World War One and its aftermath
George Grosz, Germany 1893–1959 / Der besessene Forstadjunkt (The obsessed forester) 1918 / Lithograph on paper, ed. of 42 / Purchased 1991 with funds from the 1991 International Exhibitions Program /...
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Contemporary trends, old art
Installed in the restored spaces of the Queensland Art Gallery’s Philip Bacon Galleries, the new display of the International and Asian Collection links both architecturally and conceptually to...
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Highlight: Henri Rivière ‘Thirty-six views of the Eiffel Tower’
Henri Rivière / Les Trente-six vues de la Tour Eiffel (Thirty-six views of the Eiffel Tower) (detail) 1888-1902 / Bound edition of 36 colour lithographs, including 16 pages of text and 8 pages with...
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Highlight: Emil Otto Hoppé ‘Little Charwoman’ and ‘London Amusements’
Emil Otto Hoppé, Germany/England 1878-1972 / Girl sweeping, ‘Little Charwoman’, London 1934 / Gelatin silver photograph / Purchased 2014. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Grant...
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Highlight: Marvin Newman
Marvin Newman, United States b.1927 / Coney Island I,II,IV and VI 1953, printed 2013 / Archival inkjet print on paper / Purchased 2013. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Grant...
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Highlight: Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso, Spain 1881–1973 / La Belle Hollandaise 1905 / Gouache, oil and chalk on cardboard laid down on wood / Purchased 1959 with funds donated by Major Harold de Vahl Rubin / Collection:...
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