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

Gains by Gallery varied rHE 115 Items Included In :he Selected Acquisitions 1080, displayed at the ~uccnsland Art Oa.llery, ire of great variety. On the whole, the 11aUery hnd a ~ood year wll h more money lo spend anrt glfia coming In nicely. l\laJor paintings, ncqulred by the Trus~s. apart I rom 111ose bough~ (and revlewecl) In tholr Purchase P1'lze, are Lawrence Daws' Owl Creek nncl Brian Dwllop'a Room W:th A Vlsl(OI', Dr Nonnan Dehan presented his µrulnl shed portr1111, pn'Inted by Debell. My bl'orll<> paintin~ among further (lifts by Lady Trout loll have oeen shown 011 another oc– caalonl la Rupert Bunny':; GoULl1 of France. Virgin and Child With S'lllnts •ncl donor 'bY th9 Ma.;;tet· of Frankfurt Is well lmo1m alrca, y by gallery vlsl«irs. AdmlMrs or Naive nrt wlll en• Joy the adalllona to lhe hlt,hcr1 o small •ollectlon tn this field ol our i;allery, Among the recent acqulsltlom are three painting• :,r Yug,islM' Nah•e artists (lately reviewed ill' mel, The eo,lectln11 of Graphics han been algnlfl!antly nnrlched hy Important prints, 11•htch Include Plcasao tan etohln,: from his "Vollard Suite">. Hounult, Pl. - sarro, Redon, nnd Knthe I<oll– wlta; and amona prints by Aus– .trallan artla~, are superb :Jtho– graphlo dr~wtngs by Lloyd Rees, lnterestlnir prints by Hnnrahnn, Mltellnan, and Erle 'l'hake, M l\'~11 as the Important gifts of l-11e Queensland Gallery Society: two etohlnns by Fred Wllllnms, and three prints, forming a trllych, by Bea Maddock. Two exciting expressionistic dr&wlnga are Baldessln'a Bouquet Persona,ge and Peter Booth'• Heads, the tatter preso'nted by the Queenslnnd Art ' Galler)' so c I e t )' throu1h Its Donors Scheme. · Donors added ,·cry conlempo• rary Ideas In sculpture: Dr W.R. ,Johnston presented Jol\n Davi bou:1d twigs ond pa.pier macho "You YanllS" (recently ultown at IMA). !'tl : ~11:<Pd • :,11111111100 tw Dttnnro. ~mllh 111111 Jl,1r1. 10 11 m . • .1,.11(.) p,m. Mnn• ::~~Dff!,~ 0 ~:,r .,,n~~-:~a1l 7~!1ni,~\-l h\" Ur•""""· Hreu11ch, Gunthnrr,• and oth1•rt. 1 11n1•9un 10 ;am•<, pm. HIW CIHTIIAL CALLIAIII <Orilnd r.,mtr,11 ;\rcAtfr\ : Ml~rd f'Xhlllllon by On)1'n. 0f'Vl!nf\Of'I. 11:lnlY, Grf!rn, Snw• t1l\' nn,1 Dlckrrson. Mnn•Frt 10.~o urn • ~.~n p,111.. Siu 11nd Hun , 10 ,,,.,o .1.111. • .i .. " I fl,ITI.. Ttrnr~c11'1\'!li r, p.m . • fJ P,m, ~OTTl"I GALLl"V f,tq Lr.lchhardl RI. Spr\nu Hllll : Cr.r.lmlC.l t,y mnmbo~. T1ir11•Tl11m• 10 11m • .a run, rrt 11) 11111 • tt' 111n, H,11 11 .1111 • G pm, Sun :il pru • 6 Pnl, 1 THE COURIER-MAIL - - ---= A SECTION of Sonia Delaunay's "Syncopee", woven to her design a.t Aubusson In 1973-74. Tapestry a colorful gift THE special purchase com– mittee of Lile Queensland Art Gallery Society wanted to make a special gift to the gallery to celebrate Its open– Ing In a new building on the south bank of the Brisbane River next year. It.s convener Dr Gertrude L11ngor snld : "Lots of people In the :;oclelr worked hard for two years Lo raise $15,000." She heard Lhat. a French dealer was In Brl•bnne for two da.ys and asked him what he would have nrnllnblc within n certain price range, pnrUcularly a tapestry de· signed by n fnmous artist. She said: " He said he hao • ~· t~,~l~l~// ·:s)~l~~~~~~ a':,~ ~~~: 111 n week we Imel a color phot.n." I was 1hc foul'Lh of an edition or 111. 1npcst.rlc~ \\ o,·cn at. Aubu~- 1,1 11. nnd hnd been WO\'Cn there In .1!l7:t~,L 'l'hc purchusc p1·lcc was 514,600 nnd the lnpcst.r~• was bought. It I~ on view In 1he gallery with other 1-ecollL ncqulsitlons. f;'\ij)I ~w Dr Lnn er. nlso The Courlel'· Mall's an critic. ,aid that Sonia Dela11n11y was born In the Uk· mine In 1885, arew up In St Pe– tersb11rg, studied art In Germany 1903-4 and then In Paris. "She developed he; Ideas on color In concert with her hus– band Robert, whom she mar– ried In 1910,'' said Dr Langer. "He died In 1941. "Together they were respon– sible for a movement In art r a 11 e d Orphlsm. This ln– l'estlgated the movements or 11111IU-colored rhythmic circles. The DelnunR)'Rwere contempo– ra r,cs ol the Cubist.~ In Paris, and of Picas o and Matisse.'' Highly orgl1111J In her appll– unllon of color n1- a pntntr.r. 50111a Oclaunay nddccl n new dlmcm;lon b~' brnnchlnG out Into design..said Dr Langer. She bCf!BlllC knnwn RS Ihe most brllllRnt dcslgnm••flecor~– tor or the century. Dr Langer said her activlUes ns nn artist embraced design• for textiles. tapestries and car– pets, theatre decor and cos• w mes, as well a,; paintings ln oils and pastel• and collages, "Her marriage to Robert es– tablished one or ihe moat fa.. mous artistic putnenhlpa of modern times. As a colorlst she was superior to Robert. Hei· compoaltlona re• malned abstract. "In 1912 the Delaunan pro– foundly affec~ a number of artists, among them Paul Klee... "Sonia Delaunay was the ·flrat woman artist to have an exhlbl• tlon at the Louvre In her lifetime, thereby e•tabllBhlng a unique position. Dr Lan g er saw a SonIn Dclnuna y exhibition In 1976 In Pn rls. "I was mightily Im· µrc.ssed." she said. The artist I• reprcsemect In gnllerlcs In Pnrl. , Oxford, London. Geneva. New York , Wnshlnµ,ton nnd Ottawa amoni: mnny others. Dr Longer snld : "Syncopec I• typical or Sonia'• art, \\'hlch Is IJMed on ,yncopated rhythms or concen tric colored clrcle,:•