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Collection

Works shown in the exhibition “Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes (working title)”
sorted by artist surname
 viewing all 12 results (view 6 on display at the Gallery, view 12 with images available)

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Roy de Maistre Conflict 1932 OA24.1960
James Gleeson The sower 1944 OA13.1966
Robert Klippel
James Gleeson No 35 Madame Sophie Sesostoris (a pre-raphaelite satire) 1947-1948 SA3.1970 | Collection highlight
Robert Klippel No 48 Entities suspended from a detector 1948 SA1.1970
Herbert McClintock Dawnbreakers 1939 OA3.1969
Sidney Nolan Untitled circa 1940 49.2003
Sidney Nolan Untitled circa 1940 50.2003
Sidney Nolan Untitled circa 1940 52.2003
Carl Plate 37 ['Home sweet home'] 1945 224.2009
Carl Plate 39 [pink snail] 1945 226.2009
Peter Purves Smith New York circa 1936 OA39.1960 | Collection highlight
Eric Thake Archaeopteryx 1941 OA6.1964