"European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria"
2001-03-18 until 2001-05-27
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, TX, USA

For the first time in the history of the NGV, eighty-eight of the finest European paintings from the collection are being taken off permanent display to travel to four art galleries in the USA. This major exhibition will show-case the painting collection, reflecting its richness and diversity by showing a breadth of works spanning a significant part of the history of western artistic tradition. Included are works from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries representing a myriad of painting styles from all over Europe.

Works range in scope and style from the intimate Man of Sorrows by Memling, a devotional piece for private contemplation, to the comparatively ostentatious view of Venice by Canaletto. Masterpieces of the golden age of Dutch portraiture by Rembrandt and Thomas de Keyser will also hang with the enigmatic surrealism of Rene Magritte and the confronting abstraction of Francis Bacon and David Hockney. This exhibition will undoubtedly have a strong impact on American audiences.

IMAGE:
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Italian 1708-1787
Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion, 1767
oil on canvas
275.6 x 189.0 cm
Everard Studley Miller Bequest 1963
1325-5

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