The National Gallery of Australia, located on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, is Australia’s largest art collection, with more than 100,000 works by leading Australian and Aboriginal artists as well as international artists from around the world, with a special focus on art from Asia.
Inside the gallery you’ll find oil paintings and watercolour paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, book illustrations, sketchbooks, photographs, films, ceramics, costumes, textiles and more, all of which will impress and inspire creative spirits.
The most important work of the museum is perhaps "Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952", a dripping painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock.
Other famous works belonging to the collection are: Paul Cézanne – Afternoon in Naples Claude Monet – Heystacks, Miday, Water lilies Fernand Léger – Trapeze Artists Jackson Pollock – Totem lesson 2 Willem de Kooning – Woman V Andy Warhol – Elvis, Electric chair Mark Rothko – Multiform, Black,brown on maroon or Deep red and black Roy Lichtenstein – Kitchen stove David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon Lucian Freud – After Cézanne Ron Mueck – Pregnant Woman
