Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1993-94

I NTERNAT I ONAL PROGRAMS Exhibitions Australia Limited, this schools, tertiary institutions, obtaining loans from a number exhibition was the first substantial professional groups and art of institutions around the world. collection of works by Van Gogh to societies. Booked groups of These include the National Gallery, be seen in Australia. It traced the 21 0 0 0 individuals were guided the Courtauld Institute Galleries development of the artist's oeuvre and there were over 10 0 0 0 more and the Tate Gallery in London; within the context of works by in unguided groups. the Musée de l'orangerie and the artists who influenced him and The Gallery also presented an Musée d'Orsay in Paris; the National artists who he in turn inspired. In exhibition of French photography Museum of Western Art in Tokyo; addition to paintings and works on entitled 'J'aime la France', the FundaciOn ColecciOn Thyssen- paper by Van Gogh, the exhibition consisting of 100 black and white Bornemisza, Madrid; and in the afforded the opportunity of seeing photographs from the nineteenth United States, the Baltimore works by Daubigny, Millet, Monet, century to the present. The Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Manet, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, exhibition was opened on 11 May by Museum, the J. Paul Getty Gauguin, Picasso, Braque, Derain His Excellency M. Philippe Baude, Museum, the Metropolitan and Kandinsky as well as the Ambassador of France to Australia. Museum of Art, the Museum of Australian expatriate artist, An exhibition of German Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum John Peter Russell. photograms was presented of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Loans were drawn from through the Goethe-Institute, Gallery of Art, Washington and the collections around the world Sydney. Both of these exhibitions Philadelphia Museum of Art. including the Metropolitan have been very well received by Continuing the Gallery's Museum of Art, New York; the Gallery visitors, commitment to bring exhibitions Tate Gallery and National Gallery, of exceptional art works to the London; the Musée d'Orsay, Paris Ex h i b i t i o n s D e v e l o p m e n t people of Queensland, the Gallery and a significant number of works The Gallery is currently planning is also preparing a major exhibition from Dutch collections including 'Renoir: Master I m p r e s s i o n i s t ' , o f works by Henri Matisse. the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, organised by the Queensland Art Preparations for the Matisse Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum Gallery in association with Art exhibition have been underway for Kröller Muller, Otterlo and the Exhibitions Australia Limited. This nearly ten years and have received Stichting Collectie P en N. de Boer travelling exhibition will open at support at the highest levels of Foundation. The inclusion of a Queensland Art Gallery on 29 July Government in France and Australia, number of works held in Australian 1994. Australians have not and from major international national, state and regional previously had an opportunity to museums. As the first exhibition of galleries highlighted the breadth view an exhibition of works by works by Henri Matisse ever to visit and quality of our own public Renoir. The exhibition represents this country, this project presents a collections, all phases of Renoir's long career unique opportunity for Australians The official opening was until the time of his death in 1919 to experience the artist's work in a performed by Mr Ronald de Leeuw, when he was widely recognised as significant and substantial way. Director of the Rijksmuseum France's greatest living painter. This project has been written into Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, on It explores how Renoir's art the Cultural Agreement between Friday 21 January. Over the seven developed and responded to the French and Australian weeks of its display, 138 0 0 0 visitors changing historical contexts. Governments, and the Association came to the exhibition. 'Shell It shows how he executed pictures Française d'Action Artistique has presents Van Gogh ...' is the second of very varied types - portraits and given its support to organising most popular exhibition ever to be figure scenes, female nudes, the French component of the held at the Queensland Art Gallery. landscapes and still lives, exhibition. It has appointed Booked groups from as far away as As the organising gallery for the Madame Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Lismore, Mackay and Rockhampton Renoir exhibition, the Queensland Conservateur en Chef, Musée attended the exhibition, including Art Gallery is responsible for National d'Art Moderne, as the 16