Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

· Hind~I I nringlll cl her t~ or sllvc • <icorg,a ,tr~ old • ,cks nnt-. ting 1hi., I Federal police ride shotgllri ·. for $20m art TWENTY-MILLION dollars worth of art arrived in Bris– bane yesterday amid security fit for the Prime Minister. Nine armed Federal po lice guarded the paintings as they were unloaded from a specially chartered air fre ighter at Brisbone Air– port and driven to the Queensland Art Gallery. And two police mo• torc:)'ellst.s escorted the three vans carrying them on their Journey. ·rhe works ha \'e heen Indemnified by the F<erl· crRI Go\lernlTtent. agalt1&t. Joss or damage. The 107 palnUn~s. de• ,crlbed RS being the fl· 11cst exhibition or EU· ropean and Amerlcnn modern masters to tour Australia. Is pRrL or the TJ1} 1 ~scn-Borncmis1.a Col· leeUon. The 97 arll•ts re11rc• ,cnted Include llcnulr, Ce;mnne, Degns, PlcHsso, l.anlrec, , 1 nn noih, .John Sn r gr n t. De Xnonlng, IIRusrhenhcr,r. Rolhko, l'ollm•k and Wyeth. Queen. land An Onl· lrr~' rlcpu1 y director, Mr nu~scll 1,crrison, 1-n1d :-;e– ruri1 ~· In the c.allcrr's tcmporn rr prcm1i,.cs 111 the MIM Bulldln~. was •~u•I to securlly Rt nm· nU1cr Austral11111 ca11lrnl , city art gallery. Thr mnn 1·r 1pnm,1hlr for Iool:ln c: AIler Ihe pnlntlngs as thri- 11101e around Aus1rnlla. Mr Gordon H11dson, snM se– curity hnd bc1•n onr of tllr problerl"ls to corue11d I wllh. Big problem HIil, 11robahl;' 1h, hla· ~rq Jlrnhlrm \\'I\& 111t~ rfrlCl'lnrAliOll t\ ( the cnM•~ nncl pnrklni: <.'Olllf\lllhlt!. 1he IJnlntlngH. \\'ruthcr ,u, unnthrr prohl~m. 'l'hr c•l'"tr~ C:fl fle not hr 111110:1 flf'fl h·mn the a1•ro11hrnr If It I~ 1·alnh11:.. I I 1'1lw 1,, 1 111 .1il to rn ure the palntin~s do not. dct.erlorinc during their· tro vets. He said he <11<; 1101 rulnd babysltli ng 520 mJllion worth of someone else's paintings. "IL ctoe:m·t hothcr mr." he Mlld. •·r looked after collecting them from the galleries In London Rnd Swl1,crl11nd." The l!Xllll>1t1011, which Is sponsored in Quec11s– Jn11d t,1· The Couricr– Jllnil mirl BTQ Ohllllllrl 7. ll'111 run from February 12 to Mnrch 30. I \