We decided that Sake was a great place to get lunch. It was already on our radar and since it was right next to the gallery we wanted to visit, we booked it. It did not disappoint. We had a 21 piece sashimi platter, a vegetable tempura and a beer, all for $80 USD. Less than we usually spent back in the USA. Yum! Sake was right next to the river and we watched the tour boats go by. We also got to see lots of school kids walk by and we watched a work crew putting in a walkway. Then it was off to the National Gallery of Victoria. This place was a world of information and had a very huge variety of pieces on display. This was very a enjoyable time.
The cooks whipping it up
Tall ceilings and a cool vibe
What might these things be? The one on the left is "f" for female and on the right is "m" for male. This bathroom was unisex, but I passed three doors wondering what the funny little "f" was
Great decorations
A spotted dove
The Performing Arts Building
Phantom is soon to open
Some Animated birds, walking and pecking
Water was flowing on this large glass entry way
From 750 BC this dude was the guardian of the underworld for the Chinese Emperor
1500 year old wooden carving
A recent piece, porcelain masks
Bamboo art work
Very intricate work
What fine craftmanship
The sirens! Yikes, don't listen to them Ulysses
A cool sea scape
150 year old chair
A selection of shaker chairs. They came in 8 sizes
Shaker boxes
A giant stained glass ceiling
A neckless made form colored glass optical filters
Frank Lloyd Wright chair
And another FLW chair
Oh, a very nice art deco piece
Oh, do I love this wooden chest
In the 1600's Missionaries brough mechanical clocks to Japan to get in with the nobility. Soon the missionaries were banned and the Japanese began to make their own mechanical clocks.
Andy Warhol self portrait
A bit of surrealism
Lots of Picasso pieces
Picasso sketches, Picasso paintings and Picasso pottery
Salvador Dali
This painting was thought to be the first Van Gogh displayed in Australia, but it was not a van Gogh. In fact when trying to verify the provenance it was determined to have been owned by a Jewish collector that was forced to sell it. So the gallery returned it to his decedents. They accepted the painting but loaned it back to the gallery.
A tiffany lamp from 1903, looking good
So many cool buildings
