Queensland Art Gallery - Collection

Collection

The gallery's collection includes a number of significant works, including:

  • "La Belle Hollandaise" by Pablo Picasso (1905)
  • Portrait of Archibald Meston by B.E. Minns, donated by public subscription in 1936
  • "Under the Jacaranda" by Richard Godfrey Rivers (1905)
  • "Equestrian self portrait" by William Robinson, winner of the 1987 Archibald Prize
  • "Self-portrait with stunned mullet" by William Robinson, winner of the 1995 Archibald Prize
  • "Creation landscape – earth and sea", by William Robinson, winner of the 1996 Wynne Prize

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