Masterpieces from Paris Exhibition NGA Information Dates and Times
Art aficionados would truly celebrate before the year ends as the National Gallery of Australia announced that they will be producing an exhibit entitled, “Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh Gauguin, Cezanne and beyond.” The National Gallery of Australia released that this exhibit will include around 112 of the most popular modern art paintings that is currently resides in Musee d’ Orsay in Paris.  Imagine great masterpieces from Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and many other artists from Paris will be on display for four months from December 2009 to April 2010.  Just to whet your appetite to this amazing collection of incredible works of art, here are some of those that you will be able to see up close and personal. Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles 1889. This is an oil on canvas painting which is Van Gogh’s own bedroom in his famous Yellow House in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. This would be the third and smaller version of the original work he did back in 1888. They look almost the same but not an exact copy. Gauguin’s Tahitian women 1891. This is called Femmes de Tahiti in French. It is also an oil on canvas painting done shortly after Gauguin’s arrival in Tahiti. He was one of the leading Post-impressionist painters in France. He abandoned the Impressionist movement and began painting using primitive art. Cézanne’s beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890. Paul Cezanne is one of the most influential artists Post-impressionist era. He contributed much on the use Cubism and his optical phenomena and geometric art explorations said to have inspired other great artists such as Picasso and Braque among others.
These great masters were also friends but some said that their relationship were somehow rocky. Paul Gauguin even lived on that same Yellow House of Vincent Van Gogh for nine weeks. If you get the chance to attend the exhibit, if you notice a door on the right of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom painting, that one leads to Gauguin’s own bedroom.
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October 21 2009 12:30 am | NGA Exhibitions