Georges Rouault Pierrette ca. 1932 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Georges Rouault Le Cirque 1927 lithograph (book illustration) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Georges Rouault Jacques Bonhomme before 1958 oil and gouache on paper, mounted on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Georges Rouault Weary Bones 1934 color aquatint Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
Cindy Sherman Untitled #113 1982 C-print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Cindy Sherman Untitled #129 1983 C-print Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
Cindy Sherman Untitled #255 1992 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Cindy Sherman Untitled 2000 C-print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
George Lambert Ballet Dancer in Costume 1911 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
George Lambert Chesham Street 1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
George Lambert Self Portrait Undressing 1909 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
George Lambert Study for The Blue Hat (Thea Proctor) 1909 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sidney Nolan Escaped Convict 1962 polyvinyl acetate and oil paint on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Sidney Nolan Princess 1964 oil on board Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Sidney Nolan Rilke 1965 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sidney Nolan Shakespeare Sonnet 1967 acrylic on paper Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
from The Sea and the Mirror
Trinculo:
Mechanic, merchant, king
Are warmed by the cold clown
Whose head is in the clouds
And never can get down.
Into a solitude
Undreamed of by their fat
Quick dreams have lifted me;
The north wind steals my hat.
On clear days I can see
Green acres far below,
And the red roof where I
Was Little Trinculo.
There lies that solid world
These hands can never reach;
My history, my love,
Is but a choice of speech.
A terror shakes my tree,
A flock of words fly out,
Whereat a laughter shakes
The busy and devout.
Wild images, come down
Out of your freezing sky,
That I, like shorter men,
May get my joke and die.
May get my joke and die.
– W.H. Auden (1942-44)