Barbier - Vasileff - Ferran - Oldfield

Georges Barbier
La Danseuse aux Jets d'Eau -
Robe de Danse de Worth
1924-25
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Georges Barbier
La Roseraie - Robe de soir de Worth
1922
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Georges Barbier
Le Tombeau des Secrets - Robe intérieur de Worth
1922
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Georges Barbier
Me Voici! - Robe de Worth
1924
pochoir
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Life Going On: Knowledge and Innocence
1949
watercolor and ink on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Life Going On
1949
watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Holy Russia (Franco Spain)
1950
oil on board
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Danila Vassilieff
Portrait of artist Albert Tucker
1980
acrylic and watercolor on paper
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Anne Ferran
Scenes on the Death of Nature I and II
1986
gelatin silver prints
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Anne Ferran
Scenes on the Death of Nature III
1986
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Anne Ferran
Scenes on the Death of Nature IV
1986
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Anne Ferran
Scenes on the Death of Nature V
1986
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Alan Oldfield
Costume Design for Bopper
1978
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Alan Oldfield
Costume Design for Gay Boy II
1978
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Alan Oldfield
Costume Design for Trendy Couple
1978
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Alan Oldfield
Costume Design for Voyeur
1978
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

The Fall of Rome

The piers are pummelled by the waves;
In a lonely field the rain
Lashes an abandoned train;
Outlaws fill the mountain caves.

Fantastic grow the evening gowns;
Agents of the Fisc pursue
Absconding tax-defaulters through
The sewers of provincial towns. 

Private rites of magic send
The temple prostitutes to sleep;
All the literati keep
An imaginary friend. 

Cerebrotonic Cato may
Extol the Ancient Disciplines,
But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.

Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.

Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.

– W.H. Auden (1947)