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| Marc Quinn Portraits of Landscapes 2007 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Marc Quinn Portraits of Landscapes 2007 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Marc Quinn Portraits of Landscapes 2007 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
 Marc Quinn Portraits of Landscapes 2007 pigment print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Margaret and William Preston Formal Garden 1937 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Margaret Preston Flannel Flowers 1928 hand-colored woodcut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Margaret Preston Flapper 1925 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Margaret Preston Self Portrait 1930 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Greek 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Greco-Roman 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Medieval 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Renaissance 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Sidney Nolan Rimbaud Royalty 1942 enamel on board Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Sidney Nolan Daisy Bates at Ooldea 1950 oil and enamel on board National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Sidney Nolan Greek Warrior I 1956 oil on paper Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Sidney Nolan Stage Design for Serge Lifar's ballet Icare 1940 gouache, ink and collage on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Rimbaud
The nights, the railway-arches, the bad sky,
His horrible companions did not know it;
His horrible companions did not know it;
But in that child the rhetorician's lie
Burst like a pipe: the cold had made a poet.
Drinks bought him by his weak and lyric friend
His five wits systematically deranged,
To all accustomed nonsense put an end;
His five wits systematically deranged,
To all accustomed nonsense put an end;
Till he from lyre and weakness was estranged.
Verse was a special illness of the ear;
Integrity was not enough; that seemed
The hell of childhood: he must try again.
Now, galloping through Africa, he dreamed
Of a new self, a son, an engineer,
His truth acceptable to lying men.
His truth acceptable to lying men.
– W.H. Auden (1938)