Vassilieff - Tucker - Bing - Sainthill

Danila Vassilieff
Peter and the Wolf (the Wolf defeated)
1949
watercolor and gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Martian Landscape: Procession
1949
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Landscape with Figures
1950
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Danila Vassilieff
Figures for Sculpture 2
ca. 1951
watercolor and gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Tucker
Portrait of artist Danila Vassilieff
1985
oil on canvas
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Albert Tucker
Portrait of artist Joy Hester (Fitzroy Gardens)
1984
oil on board
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Albert Tucker
Self Portrait
1941
oil on board
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Tucker
Self Portrait
1990
watercolor and ink on paper
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Ilse Bing
Italians playing Cards, The Village, New York
1936
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ilse Bing
Frankfurt
1929
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ilse Bing
Fountain, Paris
1933
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ilse Bing
My Double Reflection in Paris Window
1947
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loudon Sainthill
Stage Design for Belle: Old Bedford Theatre Scene
1961
watercolor and gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loudon Sainthill
Royal Album
(design for title-page coat-of-arms)
1951
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loudon Sainthill
Royal Album
(design of heraldic emblems for half title-page)
1951
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loudon Sainthill
Royal Album
(design for back of dust jacket)
1951
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sonnets from China

                                 XXI

                      (to E.M. Forster)

Though Italy and King's are far away,
And Truth a subject only bombs discuss,
Our ears unfriendly, still you speak to us,
Insisting that the inner life can pay.

As we dash down the slope of hate with gladness,
You trip us up like an unnoticed stone,
And just when we are closeted with madness,
You interrupt us like the telephone.

Yes, we are Lucy, Turton, Philip: we
Wish international evil, are delighted
To join the jolly ranks of the benighted

Where reason is denied and love ignored,
But, as we swear our lie, Miss Avery
Comes out into the garden with a sword. 

– W.H. Auden (1938)