Temporary exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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This is a list of unique temporary exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...

, Sydney Australia, organised chronologically and grouped by decade.

Not listed here are the temporary exhibitions that the Gallery hosts regularly, such as the long running Archibald Prize
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...

, the Sulman Prize
Sulman Prize
The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest running art prizes, having been established in 1936.It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney.-Criteria:The Sir John...

, Wynne Prize
Wynne Prize
The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. One of Australia's longest running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne...

 and Dobell
Dobell Prize
Dobell Prize for drawing, Australian art prize held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales the highest prize for drawing in Australia. The prize had previously been held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize, around the early part of the year, but was moved in 2003 to...

 art prizes.

Touring exhibitions are marked with an asterisk
Asterisk
An asterisk is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star...

 (*).

1900s

Year Exhibition Dates Exhibition Title Exhibition Summary Exhibition Curator Exhibition CataloguePress/Reviews/Notes |
1906 1906-03 to 1906-04 (exhibited for 25 days) The Light of the World A painting by William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt OM was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Biography:...

 
Exhibition of a life size replica painted in 1900 of an original (in Keble College, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall...

) painted by the artist in 1852, "in accordance with a practice he has already adopted"
The artist was inspired by a passage from the book of Revelation (3:20): "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come and sup with him, and he with me." Overall, 302,183 people viewed the painting. By 31 March, 158,000 persons had seen it and by 5 April daily attendance had exceeded 11,000. The average daily attendance set records which remain unbroken.

1980s

Year Exhibition Dates Exhibition Title Exhibition Summary Exhibition Curator Exhibition CataloguePress/Reviews/Notes |
1987 1987-04-12 to 1987-04-19 Australian Sculpture 1890-1919 The Gallery's early Australian sculpture collection
1987-? to 1987-08-03 Harry Callahan photographs 110 original prints by Harry Callahan Sandra Byron
1987-? to 1987-02-23 Surface for Reflexion 2 23 Painters whose careers began in 1960s
1987-? to 1987-04-20 America: Art and the West The changing idea of the frontier - a perspective into American art and cultural history over a period of 150 years Gallery Education (Terence Maloon?)
1987-03-06 to 1987-04-12 Australia: Art and the West Parallels in Australian art to themes in America: Art and the West Gallery Education (Terence Maloon?)
1987-03-14 to 1987-04-18 Skinner Prout in Australia Works of the Australian colonial artist John Skinner Prout (1805–1876) Wendy Symonds
1987-05-01 to 1987-05-31 Acquisitions from the Komon, Salkauskas and Horton Funds Works acquired by the Henry Salkauskas Contemporary Art Purchase Fund, the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund and the Mervyn Horton
Mervyn Horton
Mervyn Emrys Rosser Horton AM was an Australian art editor, art collector and philanthropist.-Early life:Mervyn Horton was born and grew up in Sydney, attending Newington College , Stanmore and the University of Sydney where he studied engineering.-Working life:He was a Director of the Katoomba...

 Bequest Fund
1987-05-20 to 1987-07-05 Yves Saint Laurent - retrospective Homage to the achievements in fashion of Yves St Laurent Originally curated by Diana Vreeland from Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

 for the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1983.
1987-06-05 to 1987-07-19 William Delafield Cook: mid-career survey A selected 28 works of the artist's British and Australian career
1987-? to 1987-09-20 Surveying the work of the great Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...

 (1377-1446)
Measured drawings, scale models and photographs to demonstrate physical manifestations of the political and social values of 15th century Florence
1987-? Lines of Fire (Linea di Fuoco) Installation as part of Carnivale '87 exploring the themes of State terrorism. Photographs, texts, sculptures, slides and sound Dennis Del Fvero and FILEF (a federation of Sydney-based Italian migrant workers and their families)
1987-07-24 to 1987-09-15 Colin Lanceley 1961-1987 restrospective a published book contains an essay by Robert Hughes The Art Gallery Society arranged a viewing of Lanceley's studio to its members on 27 November 2010.
1987-08-12 to 1987-09-27 Sir Sidney Nolan
Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC was one of Australia's best-known painters and printmakers.-Early life:Nolan was born in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April 1917. He was the eldest of four children. His family later moved to St Kilda. Nolan attended the Brighton Road State School and...

: Landscape and Legends - a retrospective exhibition 1937-1987
200 works from public and private collections in Australia and England See interview with AGNSW's William Wright
1987-11 to 1988-01-03 Sighting References: Cipher
Cipher
In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption — a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. In non-technical usage, a “cipher” is the same thing as a “code”; however, the concepts...

s, Systems and Codes
Participatory exhibition of art works and critical writing Gary Sangster ISBN 0-9589154-3-1
1987-10-16 to 1987-11-29 Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

: 20 years of work
First substantial body of work from major period of 20th century Russian art shown to Australian public Originally held in Moscow 1930, curated by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian poet of the Revolutionary Era
1988 1988-01-01 to 1988-01-31 ANZ Bicentennial Art Commissions Works commissioned by State Galleries and funded by ANZ etc.
to 1988-02-14 Munakata 80 works by Japanese printmaker Munakato Shiko
Shiko Munakata
, was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan. He is associated with the sosaku hanga movement and the mingei movement. Munakata was awarded the "Prize of Excellence" at the Second International Print Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952...

 (1903–1975)
1988-02-24 to 1988-05-15 CSR Collection Corporate commission of six photographers to represent CSR Ltd Refinery at Pyrmont
Pyrmont, New South Wales
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...

 (about 350 photographs)
Wendy Symonds
1988-02-10 to 1988-03-13 Moët & Chandon * Second annual Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition to encourage and promote contemporary Australian art.
1988-03-10 to 1988-05-01 Masterpieces from the Hermitage
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...

 
Western European paintings from Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...

 to Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 
Prunster
1988-03-04 to 1988-05-01 The Artist and the Patron A survey of colonial art and patronage Patricia R. McDonald ISBN 0-7305-4745-0
1988-05-17 to 1988-06-26 Art Knits Knitwear
Knitted fabric
Knitted fabrics is the third major class of fabric, after woven and nonwoven fabrics.-Elasticity, thickness and warmth:Compared to the other two classes, knitted fabrics are much more elastic, which accounts for their historical use in stockings and other clothing that requires changes in shape...

 by Australian designers
Wendy Symonds(?)
1988-05-18 to 1988-07-03 The Australian Biennale 1988 A survey of 20th century art
20th century art
20th-century art and what it became known as — modern art — really began with modernism in the late 19th century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post Impressionism and Art Nouveau led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke in Germany. Fauvism in Paris...

 - paintings, sculptures, performances, installations, from 1940–1988
1988-06-01 to 1988 07-16 A Study of Genius: Master Drawings and Watercolours
Watercolor painting
Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...

 from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen 
Fifty drawings and watercolours representing the collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

 
1988-07-05 to 1988-09-15 NZ
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 XI
Survey of 11 contemporary NZ artists - painting, sculpture, installation, photography
1988-07-27 to 1988-10-02 Terra Australis
Terra Australis
Terra Australis, Terra Australis Ignota or Terra Australis Incognita was a hypothesized continent appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century...

: The Furthest Shore
European view of Australia from the notions of the 15th century to discovery William Eisler ISBN 0-642-13464-2
1988-07-26 to 1988-11-09 Japanese Art
Japanese art
Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art...

 from the Collection
Japanese screens
Byobu
are Japanese folding screens made from several joined panels bearing decorative painting and calligraphy, used to separate interiors and enclose private spaces, among other uses.- History :...

, hanging scroll
Hanging scroll
A hanging scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit Chinese painting and calligraphy. Displaying the art in such way was befitting for public appreciation and appraisal of the aesthetics of the scrolls in its entirety by the audience. The traditional craft involved in...

s, ceramics
Ceramic art
In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...

 and lacquer
Japanese lacquerware
Japanese lacquerware is a broad category of fine and decorative arts, as lacquer has been used in paintings, prints, and on a wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to bento boxes for food.A number of terms are used in Japanese to refer to lacquerware...

 from the Gallery's collection
1988-09-17 to 1988-10-30 Contemporary Chinese Painting
Chinese painting
Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures. Early pottery was painted with spirals, zigzags, dots, or animals...

 
Selection from Gallery's holdings of modern, traditional style paintings Jackie Menzies
1988-09-30 to 1988-11-13 Made in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

 
Contemporary Cuban art
Cuban Art
Cuban art is a very diverse cultural blend of African, European and North American design reflecting the diverse demographic of the island. Cuban artists embraced European modernism and the early part of the 20th century saw a growth in Cuban vanguardism movements, these movements were...

 - Paintings, installations, objects and photographs by nine contemporary Cuban artists
Charles Merewether
1988-08-24 to 1988-09-18 Australian Video Festival Video installation in association with the Australian Video Festival
1988-10-21 to 1988-11-27 The Great Australian Art Exhibition For the occasion of the Bicentenary - Comprehensive review of Australian art over 200 years Barry Pierce
1988-10-15 to 1988-12-11 Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

: The Renaissance 
Italian paintings on loan to the Gallery to coincide with the visit of the President of Italy 
1988-11-09 to 1988-12-11 David Moore
David Moore (photographer)
David Moore was an Australian photojournalist.Moore was educated at Geelong Grammar School. He began his career in the studio of Russell Roberts in Sydney, moving on to work with Max Dupain soon after...

 - Fifty Years of Photographs
Retrospective Sandra Byron
1988-12-20 to 1989-01-26 Masterpieces from Tokyo's
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 Idemitsu Collection
105 Japanese ceramics from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
is an art museum located in the . The museum was founded in 1966 and is administered as an incorporated foundation of . In 2000, , a branch of the museum, opened in , in . The museum maintains a permanent collection consisting primarily of Japanese painting and East Asian ceramics, and also holds...

 
Jackie Menzies

1990s

Year Exhibition Dates Exhibition Title Exhibition Summary Exhibition Curator Exhibition CataloguePress/Reviews/Notes |
1991 1991- ? to 1991-02-17 Contemporary Japanese ceramics New works by Japan’s leading traditional and avant-garde potters, selected from the annual Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition
1991-02-02 to 1991-04-07 Roger Kemp
Roger Kemp
Francis Roderick Kemp OBE , known as Roger, was one of Australia's foremost practitioners of transcendental abstraction...

 etchings
First major exhibition of Kemp’s etchings
1991 - ? to 1991-02-23 Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes à Court
Robert Holmes à Court
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was an entrepreneur who became Australia's first businessman worth over a billion dollars before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990.Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire...

 Collection
Cross-section of contemporary Aboriginal art spanning the continent
1991-? to 1991-02-03 Bette Mifsud Installation of large phototransparencies
1991-? to 1991-02-17 Treasures from the Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum
The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.-History:...

 
Works of Ancient Chinese art from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, including ceramics and tomb figures from the Han
Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 and Tang
Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...

 dynasties
1991-? to 1991-03-10 Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991 In celebration of the 700th anniversary of Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, exhibition focuses on seven important Swiss-Australian artists – John Webber
John Webber
John Webber was an English artist best known for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii.Webber was born on 6 October 1751 in London, educated in Switzerland and studied painting at Paris....

 (1751-1793), Wilbraham Liardet (1799-1878), Nicholas Chevalier
Nicholas Chevalier
Nicholas Chevalier was an Australian artist.-Early life:Chevalier was born in St Petersburg, Russia, the son of Louis Chevalier, who came from Vaud, Switzerland, and was overseer to the estates of the Prince de Wittgenstein in Russia. Nicholas' mother was Russian...

 (1828-1901), Louis Buvelot
Louis Buvelot
Louis Buvelot , born Abram-Louis Buvelot, was a Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia in 1865 and influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.-Early life:...

 (1814-1888), Sali Herman
Sali Herman
Sali Herman was a Swiss-born Australian artist, one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War....

 (1898-1993), Paul Haefliger (1914-1982) and Joe Felber (1915-?)
Barry Pierce
1991-? to 1991-03-31 Machina: Persona Arthur Wicks installation - Four working machines as installation and performance: Helicopter, Boat, Car and two Figures Wendy Symonds
1991-02-16 to 1991-06-16 The Magic of the Paris Opera
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique...

: 300 years of French style
220 historical pieces - costumes, jewels, drawings and stage models from the collection of the 300 year history of the Paris Opera. Coincides with France’s Year of the Art of Living.
1991-02-26 to 1991-04-21 Elwyn Lynn Retrospective – key examples of Lynn’s painting and collage Peter Pinson
1991-03-20 to 1991-05-26 Albert Tucker
Albert Tucker (artist)
Albert Lee Tucker , a pivotal Australian artist, was a member of the Heide Circle, a group of leading modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide", located in Bulleen, near Heidelberg , was a haven for the group...

 retrospective
160 works by Australian expressionist Albert Tucker. Exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...

.
Catalogue NGV 1990
1991-? to 1991-04-14 International photographs from the permanent collection Photographs from renowned masters of 19th and 20th centuries including Lewis Hine, Muybridge, Brassai, Brandt, and Cartier-Bresson. Selected images from 1840s to 1980s. Includes striking examples of the British and European pictorialist
Pictorialism
‎Pictorialism is the name given to a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism...

 movements as well as formally abstracted images such as by Edward Weston
Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...

 (1886-1958), André Kertész
André Kertész
André Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition...

 (1894-1895) and Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...

 (1890-1976).
Sandra Byron
1991-04-27 to 1991-06-10 Three Installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

: Lucas, Mellick and Owen
Noelene Lucas, Ross Mellick and Robert Owen
1991-04-19 to 1991-06-30 Max Pam
Max Pam
Max Pam, is a contemporary Australian photographer.As a teenager Pam found post-war suburban Melbourne grim, oppressive and culturally isolated...

 
Mid-career survey of the work of contemporary Australian photographer Max Pam Sandra Byron
1991-04-13 to 1991-07-07 Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection From colonial masters to the Heidelberg School, includes works by John Glover
John Glover (artist)
John Glover was an English/Australian artist in what is known as the early colonial period of Australian art. In Australia he has been dubbed the father of Australian landscape painting.-Life in Europe:...

, Louis Buvelot
Louis Buvelot
Louis Buvelot , born Abram-Louis Buvelot, was a Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia in 1865 and influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.-Early life:...

, Arthur Streeton
Arthur Streeton
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was an Australian landscape painter.-Early life:Streeton was born in Mount Duneed, near Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874. In 1882, Streeton commenced art studies with G. F. Folingsby at the National Gallery School.Streeton was influenced by French...

, Julian Ashton
Julian Ashton
Julian Rossi Ashton was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for his influential art school in Sydney....

 and John Peter Russell
John Peter Russell
John Peter Russell was an Australian impressionist painter.-Life and work:John Peter Russell was born at the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the eldest of four children of John Russell, a Scottish engineer, his wife Charlotte Elizabeth, née Nicholl, from London. J. P. Russell was a nephew of Sir...

. A sequel to the show 20th century Australian watercolours exhibition of 1989. As part of the exhibition, Paper Conservators Rosemary Peel and Mark Stryker have prepared a special display concerned with the materials used by 19th century watercolour painters.
Hendrik Kolenberg “Two of the works included vied for first prize in John Sands’ Art Competition for 1881. Watercolours by Charles E. Hern and W.C. Piguenit were eventually awarded first and second prize respectively and purchased for the gallery [AGNSW]. In the cautious words of the judges E.L.Montefiore, E. du Faur and J. Garbett, reported in the ‘Sydney Daily Telegraph’ 19 November 1881: “the first prize to ‘Govett’s Leap’ as being an excellent representation of a well known and very characteristic scene, familiar to all tourists in New South Wales, although in purely artistic qualities they do not consider it equal to ‘Mt Isa, Lake St Clair’ – a Tasmanian scene which is less suitable for reproduction, to which they have given the second premium.”
1991-06-21 to 1991-07-14 Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition * Fifth exhibition – works by 18 young Australians
1991-07-06 to 1991-09-15 Australian photographs from the collection
1991-? to 1991-08-18 Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. He repeatedly links the attractive with the repulsive, creating work that holds within it inherent contradictions- one does not know whether to stare, be...

 Installation
A sculptural installation by the young Belgian artist, Wim Delvoye This artist subsequently captured visitors' attention with his work Cloaca 2010 exhibited in the newly opened MONA
Museum of Old and New Art
The Museum of Old and New Art is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in Australia. The museum presents antiquities, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection...

 in Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

, Tasmania
1991-08-07 to 1991-09-15 Australian Perspecta 1991 Australian photographs from the permanent collection – sixth in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the exploration of Australian contemporary art, included three dimensional works by 40 artists included Lin Onus
Lin Onus
William McLintock Onus was a Scottish-Aboriginal Artist of Wiradjuri descent from Melbourne, Australia.-Early life:Born Lin Burralung McLintock Onus, his father was political activist and businessman, Bill Onus...

’s Hills Hoist
Hills Hoist
A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, manufactured in Adelaide, South Australia by Lance Hill since 1945. The Hills Hoist and similar rotary clothes hoists remain a common fixture in many backyards in Australia and New Zealand...

. Includes an outdoor component in the Penrith
Penrith, New South Wales
Penrith is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Penrith is located west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Penrith...

 Region curated by Campbell Gray.
Victoria Lynn? Catalogue
1991-07-13 to 1991-09-29 Piety
Piety
In spiritual terminology, piety is a virtue that can mean religious devotion, spirituality, or a combination of both. A common element in most conceptions of piety is humility.- Etymology :...

 and Paganism
Paganism
Paganism is a blanket term, typically used to refer to non-Abrahamic, indigenous polytheistic religious traditions....

:
Christian and Classical themes in European art Focusing on 16th and 17th century Nicholas Draffin
1991-? to 1991-10-06 Danny Matthys installation Installation by Belgian artist working with conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

 forms since 1970s
1991-06-06 to 1991-08-25 Bohemians in the Bush: the artists’ camps of Mosman'
Mosman, New South Wales
Mosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Mosman.-Localities:In February...

'
Brings together for the first time the artists involved with the camps, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, Julian Ashton, Livingston Hopkins, Henry Fullwood
Albert Henry Fullwood
Albert Henry Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the First World War.Fullwood was born in Erdington, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 1878, Fullwood studied art at evening classes at the Birmingham Institute...

, Alfred Daplyn
Alfred James Daplyn
Alfred James Daplyn was an English-born Australian artist.Born in London, Daplyn studied there at the Slade School of Fine Art, the National Academy in New York, under Jean-Léon Gérôme at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in Rome.Daplyn migrated to Melbourne in 1881, later...

, Girolami Nerli
G. P. Nerli
Girolamo Pieri Pecci Ballati Nerli, known more commonly as Girolamo Nerli was an Italian painter who worked and travelled in Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th century influencing Charles Conder and Frances Hodgkins and helping to move Australian and New Zealand art in new directions...

, Benjamin Minns, Sydney Long
Sydney Long
Sydney Long was an Australian Artist.Born on 20 August 1871 at Ifield, Goulburn, New South Wales, Sydney Long began formal art classes at the New South Wales Art Society in 1890. in 1894 his Heidelberg School-influenced painting 'By Tranquil Waters' caused a small scandal, but was purchased by the...

 and Lister Lister
W. Lister Lister
William Lister Lister was an Australian painter who won the Wynne Prize seven times.He was born in Manly, a suburb of Sydney...

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Linda Slutzkin ISBN 0-7305-8665-0
1991-09-04 to 1991-11-17 In Our Time: the world as seen by Magnum Photographers 300 images by 60 photographers - celebrating the achievements of Magnum Photos Inc., world’s oldest and most renowned co-operative of photo-journalists, including works by founding members Robert Capa
Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...

, Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography...

, David Seymour
David Seymour
Chim was the pseudonym of David Seymour , a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris...

 and George Roger.
1991-09-10 to 1991-11-10 Contemporary Aboriginal Women’s Art Painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, weaving, carving, body ornament, photography, film, video and performance, traditional and urban, from all areas of Australia Vivonne Thwaites ISBN 0-9595800-6-9
1991-11-02 to 1991-12-15 Geoff Weary video installation for the Electronic Media Arts festival. In three parts, focusing on Japan: a shrine to Kamikaze pilots
Kamikaze
The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....

; a gathering to mourn a dead emperor; and the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The , called or TSE for short, is located in Tokyo, Japan and is the third largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies...

.
1991-? to 1991-11-05 Tony Twigg and Euan Upston Artist Twigg and dramatist Upston collaborating to present performance and sculptural installation using large-scale puppets
1991-09-22 to 1992-01-12 Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...

: Cézanne to Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...

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Major exhibition of modern masterpieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....

 in Venice. 111 works. Shown in Venice, Madrid, Tokyo and Sydney
Krens, Thomas
1991-10-19 to 1992-01-05 Divine and Courtly Life Indian miniature painting Dr Jim Masselos – Reader in History at Sydney University (honorary consultant to the exhibition)
1991-12-07 to 1992-01-19 The Life and Work of Wolfgang Sievers
Wolfgang Sievers
Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO was an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography.Seivers was born in Berlin, Germany...

 
Retrospective of one of Australia’s most distinguished photographers
? to 1992-01-27 Chinese paintings from the Collection
1991-11-19 to 1992-02-16 The Australian Decorative Arts Collection 200 works of Sydney craftspeople, specifically members of the Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW (founded in 1906 under the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...

) including Elizabeth Soderberg, Ada Newman, Ethel Atkinson and Rhoda Wager
1991-12-20 to 1992-01-27 Chinese snuff bottles
Snuff bottle
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese during the Qing Dynasty to contain powdered tobacco. Smoking tobacco was illegal during the Dynasty, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders....

 
More than 200 Chinese snuff bottles from several Hong Kong Collections Jackie Menzies
1992 1992-01-11 to 1992-02-17 Large drawings?
1992-01-25 to 1992-03-08 Through their own eyes: the personal portfolios of Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....

 and Edward Weston
Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...

 
Personal selections of the work of their own works by American photographers Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and Edward Weston (1886-1958)
1992-03-05 to 1992-? Rupert Bunny
Rupert Bunny
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris....

 
Retrospective
1992-04-? to 1992-? Francis Lymburner Artist of 1940s and 1950s
1992-05-? to Henry Moore
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....

 
Monumental sculptures, drawings and prints
1992-05-08 to 1992-? John Olsen
John Olsen (artist)
John Henry Olsen, AO, OBE is an Australian artist. Olsen's primary subject of work is landscape.-Biography:John Olsen was born in Newcastle on 21 January 1928 and moved to Bondi Beach with his family in 1935, which began his lifelong fascination with Sydney Harbour...

 retrospective
Highlights from the foremost artist of the Australian landscape Wendy Symonds
1992-? to 1992-? André Kertesz – Form and Feeling Works from the influential body of avant-garde work created in Paris from 1925
1992-05-? to 1992-08-? Dora Ohlfsen – Focus on the Collection Australian Neoclassical sculptor
1992-06-15 to 1992-? Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the 80s Works by the American Pop
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

 generation grown up from the Museum of Modern Art in New York
1992-? to ? Sydney and its Artists Celebrating Australia’s Sesquicentenary
Anniversary
An anniversary is a day that commemorates or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same day of the year as the initial event. For example, the first event is the initial occurrence or, if planned, the inaugural of the event. One year later would be the first anniversary of that event...

 
1992-? to ? Animals in Art
1992-07-08 to 1992-08-16 ?? Aboriginal art exhibition showing relationship between Aborigines and the land
1992-8-? to 1992-? Frederick McCubbin
Frederick McCubbin
Frederick McCubbin was an Australian painter who was prominent in the Heidelberg School, one of the more important periods in Australia's visual arts history....

 
Works of co-founder of the Heidelberg School
Heidelberg School
The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. The movement has latterly been described as Australian Impressionism....

 
1992-09-04 to 1992-11-22 Immortal China Paintings, bronzes and decorative arts around the theme of immortality
1992-12-? to 1992-? Biennale of international contemporary art Tony Bond, Asian component selected by Jackie Menzies
1997 1997-12-06 to 1998-02-22 Orientalism
Orientalism
Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings...

: David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

 to Klee
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism...

 
Aesthetic
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

 responses to travel
Roger Benjamin ISBN 0-7313-1344-5

2000s

Year Exhibition Dates Exhibition Title Exhibition Summary Exhibition Curator Exhibition CataloguePress/Reviews/Notes |
2008 2008-10-11 to 2009-01-26 Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...

 and the Impressionists
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

 
|Impressionist paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...

 
George TM Shackelford ISBN 978-1-74174-030-1 More than 225,000 people attended the exhibition.
Terence Maloon
2008-12-12 to 2009-02-13 Genji - The World of the Shining Prince Tribute to The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be...

 by Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012...

 (c1008)
Khanh Trinh ISBN 978-1-74174-034-9
2009 2009-03-05 to 2009-06-08 Korean Dreams Selection of paintings dating to the Joseon Dynasty
Joseon Dynasty
Joseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...

 (1302-1902)
Jackie Menzies ISBN 978-1-74174-035-6
2009-06-05 to 2009-08-23 Intensely Dutch Post-war
Post-war
A post-war period or postwar period is the interval immediately following the ending of a war and enduring as long as war does not resume. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date...

 Dutch artists, including Bram Bogart and Theo Kuijpers who was present at the opening
Henrik Kolenberg ISBN 978-1-74174-041-7 Kuijpers' visit to Australia during this exhibition inspired further "Australian works" of "unrestrained physicality and masculinity" and "vibrant optimism".
2009-07-02 to 2009-10-11 Silk
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity...

 Ikats from Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...

 
Central Asian Islamic tie-dye
Tie-dye
Tie-dye is a process of resist dyeing textiles or clothing which is made from knit or woven fabric, usually cotton; typically using bright colors. It is a modern version of traditional dyeing methods used in many cultures throughout the world. "Tie-dye" can also describe the resulting pattern or an...

d textiles
Lucien de Guise
2009-08-08 to 2009-10-25 Printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

 in the Age of Romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

 
Prints on a variety of subjects executed in a range of printmaking media from the Gallery's permanent collection Peter Raissis ISBN 978-1-74174-048-6
2009-08-? to 2009-12-18 The Dreamers Works of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists from the Gallery's collection Cara Pinchbeck
2009-10-02 to 2009-02-14 40 Years: Kaldor Public Art Projects Archival material, photographs, television footage and correspondence over four decades of Kaldor's bringing avant-garde art to Australia Anthony Bond
2009-10-29 to 2010- 01-26 Garden & Cosmos Recently discovered Indian paintings created between 17th and 19th centuries under the patronage of the Marwar
Marwar
Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. In Rajasthani dialect "wad" means a particular area. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is 'The region of desert'., The Imperial Gazetteer...

 court at Jodhpur
Jodhpur
Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...

 in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 
Jackie Menzies ISBN 978-0-500-51443-6 0500514437
2009-11-21 to 2010-02-21 Rupert Bunny
Rupert Bunny
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris....

: Artist in Paris
The works of Rupert Bunny including those from public and private collections in Australia and overseas Deborah Edwards ISBN 978-1-74174-047-9 Andrew Stephens
2009-12-05 to 2010-02-21 6 Photographers Photographs of Australia in 1940s and 1950s by Gordon Andrews, Kerry Dundas, Max Dupain
Max Dupain
Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC was a renowned Australian modernist photographer.-Early life:Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.-Early...

, Hal Missingham
Hal Missingham
Harold "Hal" Missingham AO was an Australian artist, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1945 to 1971,. and president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1952 to 1955.-Biography:...

, Axel Poignant, David Potts.
Elizabeth Maloney John Huxley

2010s

Year Exhibition Dates Exhibition Title Exhibition Summary Exhibition Curator Exhibition CataloguePress/Reviews/Notes |
2010 2010-02-13 to 2010-05-02 Hymn to Beauty - The Art of Utamaro
Utamaro
was a Japanese printmaker and painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints . His name was romanized as Outamaro. He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga...

 
First survey of the art of Utamaro in Australia Khanh Trinh ISBN 978-1-74174-053-0 "...there is a breathtaking fluency in Utamaro's line ... it was only in the late 19th century, when the impressionists and post-impressionists became obsessed with these pieces, that a vogue was established in the west." Review by John McDonald
2010-03-05 to 2010-05-23 Wilderness Balnaves painting series of contemporary Australian art Wayne Tunnicliffe ISBN 978-1-74174-054-7
2010-05-20 to 2010-08-29 Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...

 Visions - 19th Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection
19th century art from the John Schaeffer collection Richard Beresford ISBN 978-1-74174-058-5
2010-06-26 to 2010-09-19 Paths to Abstraction Tracing the links to abstract art
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

 
Terence Maloon ISBN 978-1-74174-056-1 John McDonald
2010-08-19 to 2010-11-07 The Indian Empire: Multiple Realities Photographs from India under the British Raj
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

 
Jackie Menzies Joyce Morgan
2010-08-28 to 2011-02-13 Art + Soul Indigenous Australian art from the AGNSW collection Hetti Perkins ISBN 978-0-522-85763-4 An exhibition that explores the diversity of Indigenous culture through three themes: ‘home and away’, ‘dreams and nightmares’ and ‘bitter and sweet’.
Review by Jill Rowbotham
2010-09-22 to 2010-12-05 David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

 to Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

: master drawings from the Prat Collection, Paris
One hundred drawings exploring the development of French art over during 19th century Peter Raissis ISBN 978-1-74174-060-8 An exhibition from the Paris collection of Louis-Antoine Prat, who said in an interview that "Drawings are the first drafts of genius, the first emotions. That appeals to me."
Review
2010-12-02 to 2011-03-13 The First Emperor
Emperor
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

: China's Entombed Warriors
A panoramic view of the Qin dynasty
Qin Dynasty
The Qin Dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 207 BC. The Qin state derived its name from its heartland of Qin, in modern-day Shaanxi. The strength of the Qin state was greatly increased by the legalist reforms of Shang Yang in the 4th century BC, during the Warring...

 from 13 museums in the Shaanxi province
Liu Yang ISBN 978-1-741-74062-2
"The presentation, by the architect Richard Johnson, sets a new standard for exhibition design in this country, with the warriors displayed behind a low wall that allows us to get up close and see the statues with exceptional clarity." John McDonald Adam Fulton Janet Hawley
2010-12-18 to 2011-02-27 Justin O'Brien:The Sacred Music of Colour The first major retrospective of the artist’s work since 1987 and the first since his death. Barry Pearce and Natalie Wilson ISBN 978-1-74174-061-5 The exhibition prompts the viewer to ask: "To what extent was the artist driven by a spiritual, as opposed to an aesthetic imperative? Which one is the servant of the other?"
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2011 2011-08-06 to 2011-11-06 The Mad Square - Modernity in German Art 1910-37 Over 200 diverse works exploring the ways in which German artists explored the modern world between the wars Jacqueline Strecker ISBN 978-1-74174-068-4 "Strecker has tried to present a broader picture of the Weimar years, showcasing its incredible artistic diversity."
"It's about seeing. Really - frankly, fearlessly - seeing."
2011-11-12 to 2012-03-25 Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
Musée Picasso
The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris dedicated to the work of the artist Pablo Picasso .-Building:...

150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings Anne Baldassari ISBN 1741740746 "Numerous works in this exhibition that provide extraordinary insights in to Picasso's mind and personality." McDonald |

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