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After being purchased by British long-distance air racer James Mollison, he renamed the aircraft Dorothy after actress friend Dorothy Ward.

James Mollison

He is notable for establishing the Gallery and building on the collection that had already been assembled of mainly Australian paintings by purchasing icons of modern western art, most famously the 1974 purchases of Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock ($1.3m), and Woman V by Willem de Kooning ($650,000).

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James Mollison, AO, (born 20 March 1931) was acting director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from 1971 to 1977 and director from 1977 to 1990.

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