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

Thyssen-Bornemisza ar show is finest seen .her NEW York art dealer and collector, Andrew J. Crispo, flew to Brisban for.the opening of the $20 ml/lion Thyssen-Bornemisza collection exhibition at th Queensland Art Gallery from last Tuesday, February 12. Mr Crispo helped th present Baron Thyssen-Bornemlsza select the masterpieces for the showing. They rcrrcscnt only a ~mall rortion or the collcc1ion. which was starlet! in 1920 and now has its permanent home in Swi1zcrlantl. The cxhihi1ion or pain1ings from one or the world'~ greatest priva1c ur1 collcclio.ns was offid1 lly opcnctl hy 1hc Queensland Governor. Sir James Ramsay. on Momlay evening. Fchruary 11 . ..Amcricu and Eurore: A Ccn1ury or Modern Muster.;:· fcuturcs 1 17 ,1r1isLo; and I07 works. with at least one pain• ting frnm euch year si1wc IH70. The cxhihitinn in Qucen~– land i, ,ronsorcd hy The Courier-Moil and UTQ Chan· net 7. The exhihition. which has uttraclcd record crowds 10 the Wes1crn Auslrnli,in und Soulh Auslruliun galleries. is the nms1 imporwnt inlerm1t ional colleclion surveying I9th and 20th t-cn1ury art yet shown in Quccrr;luml. Mosl of lhe cclchralcd Europcun and American mu,1crsurc rculured. Included arc Renoir.C ·e1.an • ne. Degas. l'icas~o. l..iutrec and Van Ciogh. on the Eurnrcun ~kle. aml American, John Sargent. De Knoning. R,m,;chcnher •. Rolhkn. l'ollnck and Wyeth. The painting~ from the earlier rcriod, follow more lrmliliona Istyles. l.alcr works chronicle r,rrallcl aml oflcn ,tivrrgcnt devckirment,. The exhihitinn is now npcn daily until Murch JO. '