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

_ _ _F_R_ID_A_Y, FEE!_~UARY 8, 1980 Edited by.DES PARTRIDGE .· ANDREW McKENZIE Being .. odd helps • • "IT'S ,·ery i~portant to he pnraitllid In this job," Mr George Hudson reaponalble for the 120 mllllon Thysaen– Bornemi.sza ·Collection In .Austr.alla, 11ld · yesterday. ":You have to check every– thing meticulously an d repetitiv~ly. It doean't make you popular,'; he said. able," he said. "They're ol Ines– timable value." He h&a worked on the exhibition since last September when he travelled to Switzerland and Lon• don to check the worka Included In the collection• The c,ollectlon came to Australia for the official opening or the Art Gallery of Weetern AustrallA, where .Mr Hud,on Is the head of t,he con- aervatJon laboratory. ,.-outd be replaced and the last crumb ol broken fo&m would be vae• uumed out of the crate. "Most or thla I& eauaed by the Im• pact of aircraft landtnr," he said. He is more than poasessl ve about au his char11ea. But alter his atx– month association with the workA of 98 American and European modern masters he has two favorltes - Re– noir's "Woman With a Parasol" and Sargent'• "Venetian Onton Seller." "Everything has to be done In order. l ~UCS/1 the Job calls for an uncxcltable, conservative peraon." "l!lKhlbltlons or this nature need AOmeone In the profession of art conaervatlon on hand at all times In case of emergency," he Mid. Yesterday he ahowed Just how metlculoua he was. A worker ~n– pacllinc one of the pa.lntlnp noticed that aome or the atyren• loam pack• ln;i had cracked and broken. The exhibition starts next Tues– day, and continues until March 30, at the Queensland Art Gallery, 6th Floor MIM Bulldinr, 160 Ann Street. The gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p,m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; and :I p.m. to~ p.m. Sunday. Mr Hudso~••dreMed In a mllltal'Y· atyle shirt,· blue Jeans and anellkers. was - at the Queen•land Art· Gallery ttAnn Street supervis– ing the unpacking or the 107 works tn the rolle<;tlon. . are lrreplace- Mr Hudson wrote a note In a ape• cl1.I llook. Cracked and broken pa,:k• lntr waa not good enou1h. All of It Admla&lon char~e• are S2 adulY a.nd $1 for children, pensioners and otudents. Pnintings worlh $20 mil– l ion from one of the world's grcatcsl priva1c arl collec– tions will be on show al !he Quccnsla nd A rl Gallery from February I 1. There is ul least one work from each ca r sint·e 1870 to give the title to the exhibition ··.,\1111.:ri..:a untl Europe, /\ . cntury of Modern Masters lrom the T hysscn-Uorncrnisrn Collection.'' · It is spon,<or('d in Quccnslnnd by The C uricr-Muil and UTQ hunncl 7. Thi~ will be_the most impor• ln nL 1n1 c rn:11 101111 I exhibition surveying 191h and 20th cen– tury nrt yet shown in ·Qucenslnnd.' The list of 97 nr1ists reprc– s_cntcd by 107 paintings reads hkc a Who's Who of Eurorcan and American masters. Includ– ed nrc Renoir, Cez1nnc, l><'i:aias, Pic~s<o, Lautrtc and Van Go~h on the European siolc :111d Americans, John Sugenl. l>e · J;oonlng, Rauschtnh<% Roth• ko, Pollock and Wyeth. For Qnccnslnodcrs who have hcen fomil inr with the.,c art i, ts' works nnly throu~h reprocluc• tions. this will be the fir, t occnsion on which they will l>c a l>lc lo view paintings. 1 he oritdn:11 The raint ings from 1hc ea rl ier periods rollow 111orc ,traditional styks. La ter wor~< chronicle pnrnlld anti often divergent developments. 0000 The brillianl c,hibition which h:is :11tr:1c1cd rrcord rowd:; to the \Vcs1crn 1\ us– trali:111 nnd Sni11h Austrnlrnn gn lkric, rcprc,cn1, a p0r1inn or 1hc ..:ollcc1io11 whk h \\ i!S ,1an– cd in 1'>20 by 11,,rnn llcinrich T hyssc11-Uorncmi<1,1. 11 hus • -1