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Elie Nadelman Horse c.1911-15 plaster Collection of the National Gallery of Australia more detail
The National Gallery of Australia's collections include more than 100,000 works of art across four main areas: Australian art, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art, Asian art and International art
Works in the Gallery are part of Australia's national collection. They belong to the people of Australia and are preserved and presented for their enjoyment and education. It is the Gallery's intention to make the collection as widely appreciated as possible both in Australia and overseas.
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Collection focus
The NGA website contains special focus sites with in-depth information on specific areas of the collection.
- New acquisitions
- New Australian Indigenous galleries
- The Aboriginal memorial
- Australian prints
- Indian art
- Indonesian textiles
- International painting and sculpture
- International prints, drawings and illustrated books
- James Turrell's Skyspace Within without
- Kenneth Tyler collection
- Provenance research project
- Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series
- The Rotary Collection of Australian Art
- TT Tsui collection of Chinese ceramics