(Mostly) Clothed Ladies Of The Week: Art Gallery of New South Wales

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes:

My long weekend in Sydney included not only culture of the liquid sort, but actual art. I’ve been to Sydney dozens of times and somehow failed to visit the AGNSW, an oversight I regret after having spent the morning there. I took enough photos of art for multiple blog posts, so here’s the first — a feminine-themed one that I hope you’ll enjoy.

A few standouts: John Dickson Batten’s supremely ghoulish Snowdrop and the Seven Little Men, which will put any mental images of plump, sexless Disney dwarves firmly out of your head and replace them with menacing, slavering goblins; John Everett Millais’ The Captive, an oddly confronting name for this vision of pre-Raphaelite prettiness; Violet Teague’s Dian Dreams (Una Falkiner), with its Madame X-like bare shoulder broadcasting eroticism of a very subdued sort; Robert Peake’s Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, a rare loan from London’s National Portrait Gallery, and the three smashing portraits by the Russian-born Australian George Washington Lambert, especially The Red Shawl, which held me enthralled for a good three minutes.

Two of the paintings contain partial nudity, so possibly NSFW.

William Henry Margetson, The Sea Hath Its Pearls, 1897
Jan van Biljert, Girl With A Flute, c1630
Thomas Cooper Gotch, My Crown and Sceptre, 1891
Agathon Léonard, Veiled Female Bust, c1900
Joseph Wright of Derby, Margaret Oxenden c 1757-9
George W. Lambert, The White Glove, 1921
Rupert Bunny, A Summer Morning, 1908
Jacques Blanchard, Mars and the Vestal Virgin, c1637-8
Clewin Harcourt, One Summer Afternoon, 1911
Grace Cossington Smith, The Sock Knitter, 1915
Robert Peake the Elder, Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, 1610
Violet Teague, Dian Dreams (Una Falkiner), 1909
George W. Lambert, Miss Helen Beauclerk, 1914
John Everett Millais, The Captive, 1882
Rupert Bunny, Returning From the Garden, 1906
Thomas Francis Dicksee, Hermione, 1784
Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, Mignon, 1890
Jean-Marc Nattier, Madame de La Porte, 1754
François Boucher, A Young Lady Holding A Pug Dog, mid 1740s
Pablo Picasso, Nude Lying On A Couch (Dora Maar), 1939
George W. Lambert, The Red Shawl, 1913
John Hoppner, Madeoiselle Hilligsberg, 1791
John Dickson Batten, Snowdrop and the Seven Little Men, 1897
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, Three Bathers, 1913
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10 Responses to (Mostly) Clothed Ladies Of The Week: Art Gallery of New South Wales

  1. Tex's avatar Tex says:
    October 2, 2014 at 5:53 am

    I especially like the Thomas Cooper Gotch one

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  2. Paleo Retiree's avatar Paleo Retiree says:
    October 2, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Nice collection. I often like Anglo painting of the 1890-1920ish period. It can have a stylized Bohemian eroticism I really respond to. A little genteel but I like its spirit a lot. What’s the building itself like? A horror? Inspiring?

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  3. j's avatar j says:
    October 2, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    Is this legal? Museums forbid cameras.

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