Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940 explores the art and lives of 50 trailblazing women artists and their contribution to international modernism.

Our latest print collection celebrates key works from the exhibition and this mounted postcard print features the painting Ballet by Mary Cockburn Mercer. Spending much of life in Europe, Mercer is rumoured to have worked with Chagall and Picasso and later taught fellow Australian modernists including Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black.

Dangerously Modern mounted print
15 x 20cm
Exclusive to the Gallery Shop

Mary Cockburn Mercer (Scotland/France 1882–1963)
Ballet c1939
oil on canvas, 94.7 x 66.3cm
National Gallery of Victoria, gift of Robin Sharwood in honour of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s 100th birthday through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2009 © Sally Hudson
Design: Art Gallery of New South Wales