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

l'\J)l'ltcrh: ": in ,t 1n,1d ~ond1 t1u11 ·1he ,1rig111.il 1rccd b r rcv 1ut.1!\ U\\ lll' f'1 rs had made th e 11:11111 11,g , dc;i ned. but reback ,n~ 11 tcchni4ut:, will rclUr;l \lr Mell ish lea rned th:1 1 were for sak: 1hc e of $.140.000 a nd a va n "The Re,urrection," i•·uo was born in Venice d 1hc painter\ 0111111.: of t ICS~IL)ll whrCll W:t~ ct~cr, 1 number uf rcnai,sa 1h.~l' turn. Ti nt orcl 1,1 \\ a~ :1 tlll'-'r 1•1 (irl.!CU. de from a pri vate l'.1 n11I) ,1 Sp:i 11i, h g L'n l ll· 111,111 , 11 ":I' Ilic ,\Ill tif (;c11cr.d the , uncmkr 111 1hc ,r Br,·,I., Ill I It,· I 7 1 h 11\\crp III I ~ 1 >'>. p:11111cd ,d 11111 il he d11.·d 111 I (d I 1µ1:ind 111 lh l .. .111d \\ ,1 , 1 111 Ord111:ir , to thi.:ir 1nrni1 wa!\ fir:-.t o,\ ncd Cicnoa and \\:IS bu11 g.l11 ngland. Its arriva l 111 · of the Wils,>n i'a111il) his :1rrival in I urn.Jon. • , pi endid " orks for I he I be part ,,f the Brisbane l' of national importanci: 1 )!. e.xhibiis for the new c iin~~rtant links with .aha . , would be excellent i H! paintings as well as · lor." London in December " ith :111 undisclo,cd : 11(1 began then and the The Tintoretto was llyck 1'.1r $]45.000. the •11,land Art Ga ll ery for 1d a a favora blc time I Mellish ~J i<l . "None -.mcy. It wa~ all monc) 111d individ u:1 Is for I he Dyck wi ll arr i\'c in .,mt will be cxh1bi1ed , IIM buddi ni: in 1\1111 1·1nbcr. liol 'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY' Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1642) on canvas 91 .8 by 68.3 crn . Painted ahout 1630. this is one of a nurnher of copies of Titian paintmgs maclo by R11bens. This paint,no latnr was the prototype for Rubens· port rait of his second w1fn, Holeno Four • ment , whom he painted 111 1638 w eunnn a fur wrnp s111Hlnr 10 the one m 1111s 1uct11ro Th,.. P.y ..s of this y un!J I dy ltu1 11 111ds hhOuldm . 11101111! ,11111 hfl f->,lf "''! IS nro :ill typ,cnlly Rubens