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

• ONE box of 76 pointings for the Modern Masters ort exhibition , • unloaded from the hold of on Electro oircroft ot Brisbone Airport yesterday after transport from Adelaide. Federal police ride shotgun for $20m art TWENTY-MILLION dollars worth of art arrived in Bris– bone yesterday amid security fit for the Prime Minister. N ine ormed Federal police guarded the paintings as they were unloaded from o specially charte red ai r freighter a t Brisbane Air– port and driven to the Queensland Art Gallery. And two police mo– t orc~ 1 clists escorted the th ree vans cnrrying Lhem on L-heir journey, The "·orks ha re hecn lndemnirled _by the f'ed– era l Government against loss or damage. T he 107 prllntlnµs. de• •crlbed RS being the fi– nest exhibition of Eu– ropean and Amerlcnn modern masters to lour AustraIla. Is part or t11e Tliyssen-Borncmlsza Col• lectlon. The 91 11rt.l.ts repre• ~entcd Include Renoir, Ceznnne, Degns. Plcastin, t..autrec, , 1 an Gugh, ,John !i; a r r e n t. De Konnlng, n auschenherg-. nothko, l'ollock and Wyeth. Q ueensland Mt Gal– lery deputy director, Mr Rus ell l<crrison, said se· curlty in the gallery's , tcmporar~~ premises In the MIM Bulldln~. l\"RS equs I to security Rt ani· other Australlan cnpltal , city a rt gallery. The mnn respnnslblr for lookln~ after the paintings as they tno\'r aro u n d Austrnlln. Mr Gordon Hudson. said se– curity h nd, been onr or 1he problen'ls 10 cunt-end wit.It. Big problem llllL J>t'ClhRhl)' Liie hk· fZC~t problem w:1s thP. drtcrinratlon ur the cn~P~ nnd pnckln~ Olllllilll11!;! the pnlntlngs. \\'cu t.her wa~ :mothrr prnhlcm. 'l'hr. ,•r:,t.C."i clln• not. he unlo1u le,t rrom the acro11lanc If It Is r:olnlu~. II. Is eltlu~r ",•11i-1, or w:tll It oul or 1110,·o Into a hangar, The liead of Ihe Wrsl• ~rn Am,u·nllnn .-\rt. O11 1- ler:,-'s con:--errAli(1n li1ho· rat ory, i\'tr H11d1'011 hn, to f'lt ure the pni11U11gs do not. deteriorate durlng their' trnvels. He said he di,: not , J(nd babysltt,ing 520 million worlh of someone else·s paintings. '"It doesn't bother me." he roid. '"l looked a,ter c·ollcrtln gullerlcs in London and Switzerland." The c:<hlblll0II. wh,eh ls sponsored In Queens– lnnd by The Courier– ?.In II Rnd BTQ Channel 7, will run from February 12 to Ma rch 30. \