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Silver gelatin print

34.8 x 27.3 cm

Dr Kaare Nygaard (1903-1989) was Percy Grainger’s friend as well as medical doctor and surgeon. Nygaard was also a sculptor, and he made three bronze sculptures of the composer and one life mask. He also…

Black and white photograph.

25.6 x 20.2 cm

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 21.1 x 16 cm
Photo and card: 25.2 x 20.2 cm

Portrait of Percy Grainger in his later years. He is wearing a pinstripe suit with shirt, tie, vest, jacket and pocket square and is also crossing his arms. The…

silver gelatin print, 23.3 x 15.4 cm

This elegant studio double portrait of Percy and Rose is unorthodox in the way the composition crops out the object of their avid attention, however it successfully documents the legendary closeness between…

Sound artist David Chesworth was only 21 when he composed and recorded '50 Synthesizer Greats'. Originally self-released, the album 50 Synthesizer Greats is actually 37 tracks of minimal synth investigations, full of humour and playful…

David Chesworth launched the re-release of his debut 1979 album '50 Synthesizer Greats' (Chapter Music) in September 2017 in a live performance at the Toff in Town venue in Melbourne. Chesworth recreated his parents’ 70s lounge room on stage and…

This ‘cloak of angels’ was worn by Melba to perform before Tsar Alexander III in St Petersburg in 1891. Together with Polish opera singers Jean and Edouard de Reszke, she had been commanded by the Tsar to perform in several operas at his Imperial…

Melba’s star status was reflected in the high quality of her opera costumes. This sumptuous purple velvet robe was created by the House of Worth, the leaders of Parisian haute couture. Trimmed with ermine and lined with cream floral silk damask, this…

The cover of the LP "Karlheinz Stockhausen: Telemusik/Mixtur", published in 1969 by Deutsche Grammophon, Germany.
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced…

Ernest Thesiger was one of the closest of the many artist and musician friends that Grainger made, especially in the first decades of his career. Thesiger was an aspiring painter when he made this drawing, and later became a stage and film actor.…