Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1991-92

CURATORIAL & SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM HANNING, Tony Vilmanis and a pâte de verre bowl Printemps The extensive restoration of the portrait of (decorator) Australia b 950 191 by the Queensland-based glass artist Judy Charles Stuart, Sixth Duke of Lennox, after Sir MORRELL, Richard (glass Bohm-Parr. Peter Lely, which has been in the Collection since blower) Australia b.1953 The international glass collection was 1937, provided a work in suitable condition for Sphere: Tuz 1989 expanded by purchase at auction of a tall display. Analysis revealed that the ground was a HARVEY, L.J. Hot worked glass sphere, Australia 1871-1949 cased black over amber and (75cm), onion shaped, Gallé 'commercial' vase, mixture of lead white and chalk mixed with Carved head Elsie 1917 sandblasted and a Tiffany feathered lustre vase. Further animal glue, a seventeenth century preparation Beech, carved 23 x 23cm (diam,) 30.5 x 15 x 10.5cm Ace. 1992.047 contemporary works to enter the collection called 'lootwit', suggesting that the painting may Ace. 1992.030 Purchased 1992 included Orrefors vases by Ol/e Alberius and be a workshop adaption after the full length Gift of the Reverends David and Bruce Noble 192 Eva England, and a goblet by the Finnish portrait now in the North Carolina Museum. designer Kai' Franck. Another lengthy restoration was carried out The European ceramic collection received a on H. G. Hewitt's Season of Mist and Me/low major boost with a spectacular Barr, Flight and Fruitfulness of /893. This Victorian painting - - - , Barr (Worcester) tea service c.18/0 in a 'japan' after the poem Ode to Autumn by Keats was pattern, the gift of Mrs Jessica Ellis in memory of purchased in 1896. her parents, Char/es and Beatrice Cossart of Notable works restored in the paper Boonah. Two significant examples of Victorian conservation section included Picasso's Lo Be//e Ile design were added to the Gallery's nineteenth Ho//ondoise which was infi//ed and inpainted and , a century collection: a pair of chairs in a modified Toulouse-Lautrec 's DivonJoponois /892-93, which . Gothic style by John Pollard Seddon c. 1860 and an was cleaned and stabilised. Large portfolios by electroplate tea service of strikingly modern Udo Se/Ibach (Night-watch /990) and Ron appearance designed in 1880 by Dr Christopher McBurnie (A Rake's Progress 1989-90) were Dresser. mounted for display. The Paper Conservator was A major commitment was the completion of largely involved in preparing works for the computer catalogue records of the Australian, rotations of Australian and international works, as international and Asian decorative art collections well as exhibitions such as 'Reference Points' and by the end of 1991. 'Journeys North'. The Gallery embarked on a new initiative by gi CONSERVATION employing a Contract Conservator (Outdoor Wl Research on the attribution, condition and Sculpture) to work not only on the Collection but technique of Tintoretto's The Resurrection also on works outside the Gallery ata scheduled . '. revealed a sound attribution and a change in the fee. Clients include the Brisbane City Council, dating of the painting from the 1550s to /560-65. Queensland Cultural Centre Trust, Southbank i A conference paper was presented based on Development Corporation and the Department research to date, but further work is required of Heritage and Environment. when the painting returns from loan to the The Contract Conservator (Outdoor 'Rubens and the Italian Renaissance' exhibition. Sculpture) completed major restorations of three Further conservation and research on a bronze reliefs by W. L. Bowles entitled Commerce, seventeenth century Antwerp pane/ painting, Industry & Agriculture 1931, plus a contemporary previously thought to be The miraculous drought aluminium sculpture by Aleks Danko, Day in I of fishes by B Breenburgh has been reattributed day out as one of three versions of Christ calling the Conservator Gil/ian Osmond received a Disciple Peter by Jan Breughel the Younger. Queen Elizabeth I Silver Jubilee Trust for Young 38