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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2015
Mirka Mora (1928-2018), French-born artist and restaurateur, narrowly escaped Auschwitz as a girl.
4 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: NationalPortrait Gallery, Canberra
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Select extracts from Mirka Mora's autobiography, Wicked but Virtuous, provide rich accompaniment to recent Gallery acquisitions.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2015
Georges Mora (1913-1992) was born Gunter Morawski to a Leipzig Jewish bourgeois family of Polish descent.
1 portrait in the collection
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Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Andrew Sibley (b. 1933), painter and teacher, arrived in Australia from England in 1948, having studied at the Gravesend School of Art.
20 portraits in the collection
Barbara Blackman (b. 1928) was only 15 when the ABC Weekly published one of her poems.
5 portraits in the collection
Jim Paterson, painter, printmaker and sculptor, was born in Melbourne and completed his diploma in Fine Arts at Prahran Technical College in 1969.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.
Nick Mourtzakis (b. 1951) is Melbourne-based artist and teacher. Mourtzajkis migrated to Melbourne with his Greek family in the early 1950s and trained at the Preston Institute of Technology and Mercer House Teachers' College in the early 1970s.
2 portraits in the collection