Cairns Regional Gallery is celebrating its Fourth Birthday with
the Queensland premiere of a new travelling exhibition from the Queensland
Art Gallery.
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the
Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the
Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints
and sculpture from the Gallerys collection rarely seen outside of Brisbane.
The exhibition will be officially opened by the Hon Matt Foley MLA, Attorney
General, Minister for Justice and Minister for the Arts at the Gallerys
official Fourth Birthday function at 6.30pm on Saturday 31 July 1999.
Special guest speakers will be Mr Doug Hall, Director of the Queensland Art
Gallery and Mrs Julia King, Chief Executive of Louis Vuitton Oceania.
Cairns Regional Gallery is very proud to be hosting the premiere of this
prestigious exhibition as part of our Fourth Birthday celebrations, said
Alice-Anne Boylan, Gallery Director. This exhibition brings to Cairns some
of the most popular international paintings in the Queensland Art Gallerys
collection.
Some of these artworks have provided inspiration to generations of
Queensland artists and visitors to the Queensland Art Gallery and now we
have the rare opportunity to enjoy seeing them here in Cairns.
The Queensland Art Gallery is celebrating 100 years of travelling
exhibitions with this special exhibition that was described by Mr Doug Hall,
Director of the Queensland Art Galley as a celebration of that Gallerys
proud history of touring the States collection to regional Queensland.
This exhibition represents a milestone in the Gallerys achievements and
the importance the Gallery places upon ensuring the Collection is accessible
to the people of Queensland, said Mr Hall.
This exhibition offers audiences an interesting and visually stimulating
selection of works from a period which was crucial to the development of
modern art and art in the 20th Century, he said.
The exhibition includes some of the Gallerys most popular and memorable
works including paintings by Edward Burne-Jones, Camille Pissaro, Fernand
Leger, Walter Sickert, sculptures by Auguste Rodin and works on paper by
Jean-Francois Millet, Georges Roualt and James Whistler.
A central piece in the exhibition is the historic painting Evicted by
British artist Blandford Fletcher, which was the first acquisition by the
Queensland Art Gallery and part of the Gallerys first travelling exhibition
to the Rockhampton Technical College in 1900.
The exhibition will be on display at Cairns Regional Gallery from Friday 23
July until Sunday 5 September 1999.
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the
Collection is being sponsored at Cairns Regional Gallery by Louis Vuitton.
The exhibition has been indemnified by the Queensland Government. The
Queensland tour has been made possible with the support of Arts Queensland.
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