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Themes and variations (Annelies) A13, 1946

Listening to form

Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007

National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.

Henri van Raatle

Henri van Raatle

Henri van Raalte (1881-1929), etcher and curator, moved to Western Australia in 1910 having trained in his home town of London and at schools in Belgium and Holland.

1 portrait in the collection

Henri van Raatle

Henri van Raatle

Henri van Raatle

Henri van Raatle, c. 1910

an unknown artist

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

François Péron

François Péron

François Péron

François Péron, c. 1805

Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

BRASSAï Romania 1899 - France 1984
Matisse with his model from A portfolio of ten photographs 1939, printed c.1973

Matisse and Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2007

Exhibition of prints and drawings by Henri matisse scheduled to coincide with the NPG's annual lecture: Hilary Spurling - "Matisse's Women".

Portrait 25

September - November 2007

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Kym Bonython, Florence Broadhurst, Frank Fenner, Henri Matisse, animated portraits and more.

Albert Camus, Paris 1947
by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Tete A Tete (Face to Face)

Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Previous exhibition, 2001

Organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London and Magnum Photos, London, with the Australian tour managed by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Angela Belgiorno-Zegna, 2001 by Salvatore Zofrea

Intimate Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2002

Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture

Portrait 13

September - November 2004

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Nancy Wake, Jon Campbell's portrait of Paul Kelly, George Selth Coppin, Henri Cartier-Bresson and more.

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Jacques van Meergeren

Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren was a Dutch illustrator and painter. He is the the son of the infamous art forger, Han van Meegeren [Henricus Antonius] (1899-1947) who produced several paintings in the 1930s and 1940s which he passed off as originals by Vermeer , Pieter de Hooch and others..

1 portrait in the collection

Neighbourhood Watch, 2015 by Melissa Osborn

Neighbourhood Watch, 2015

by Melissa Osborn

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946

Insightful

Magazine article by Robert McFarlane, 2004

Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.

On train from New York to Memphis, July 4, 1956 by Alfred Wertheimer

Elvis At 21

Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer

Previous exhibition, 2013

Elvis at 21 is a photographic exhibition capturing Elvis’ rise to fame in the year 1956, before security and money built walls between him and his fans.

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Antoine Fauchery

Antoine Fauchery (1823–1861) was a Parisian artist and writer, an occasional collaborator with Henri Murger, author of Scènes de la vie de bohème which was a chief source of the opera La bohème.

2 portraits in the collection

Self portrait

Self portrait

Self portrait

Self portrait, 1949

Portrait, pen and ink on book page

Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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Desiderius Orban

Desiderius Orban OBE (1884-1986) taught himself to paint while a student at the university of Budapest.

1 portrait in the collection

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