THE GENTLE ART OF DEACCESSIONING | The NGV Sales Under Daryl Lindsay’s Directorship with Benjamin Thomas

Undoubtedly one of the last great taboos in collection practice is the controversial issue of deaccessioning. This lecture will explore a series of deaccessioning sales of art works from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collections during the 1940s and early 1950s, primarily under the directorship of Daryl Lindsay, discussing the circumstances surrounding the disposal and tracing the fate of several of the works.

Ben Thomas is the Rusden Curator at Trinity College, The University of Melbourne, and a Research Fellow with the Australian Institute of Art History. He was awarded his doctorate for his biographical study of noted Australian art administrator and artist, Sir Daryl Lindsay, and holds a Masters degree in Museum and Gallery Curatorship. He was the 2009-10 recipient of the Dr Joseph Brown AO Fellowship in art at the State Library of Victoria.

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