Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1991-92

I NTERNAT I ONAL PROGRAMS Court Collection, was also on loan to the Gallery. RODIN, Auguste France 1840-1917 New acquisitions Madame Russell 1888 The acquisitions policy for the international Wax ECHIZEN 33.2 x 27 x 24cm japan Muromachi Period) collection continues to concentrate on the 46 x 27 x 24cm (with base) c. 1300 1450 Acc. 1992.137 Narrow-necked jar (tsubo) twentieth century, but a new development is a Purchased 1992 with funds Stoneware, dark brown clay new focus on Asian art. Acquisitions in 1991-92 from the 1991 International hand built in three sections Exhibitions Program so ith ash deposit Included a major painting by contemporary Pt x47cm(diam) German artist Georg Baselitz, Im Wald 1990, and Acc. 1991.310 Purchased 1991 with funds a wax sculpture by Auguste Rodin, Madame from the 1990 International Russell 1888. Both were acquired with funds from i - PiLot inns Prnsram the 191 International Exhibitions Program. Two medieval Japanese ceramic jars, one each from the Echizen and Tokoname kilns, the latter through a generous donation by Mr James 0. - Fairfax, were acquired as part of a new initiative to establish a profile collection from the Historic Six Old Kilns of Japan. Research The Deputy Director & Manager, International Programs spent three months on study leave in Britain and France from January to April 1992 completing, among other work, research for the forthcoming exhibition of the works of Henri Matisse to be staged at the Gallery in 1995. This research was financially supported by A r t Exhibitions Australia Ltd. While in Paris, the Deputy Director & Manager, International Programs represented the Gallery at the opening of the Toulouse-Lautrec VA exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale and , continued negotiations for other potential / exhibitions from France and Germany. I : .\ Dr Sasha Grishin from the Australian National University catalogued the Gallery's collection of Russian and Greek icons and presented a detailed report dating and evaluating these works. 31