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inTernaTional collecTion
Galleries 1 & 2 + PhiliP bacOn Galleries (Gallery 8 & 9), QaG
‘Historical International: European and
British Art to 1900’ features works such
as the Master of Frankfurt's
Virgin and
Child with Saint James the Pilgrim, Saint
Catherine and the Donor with Saint Peter
c.1496, Tintoretto's
Cristo risorgente
(
The
risen Christ
) c.1555, Picasso's
La belle
Hollandaise
1905 and Edgar Degas's
Trois
danseuses à la classe de danse
(
Three
dancers at a dancing class
) c.1888–90.
Modern European, British and North
American works, including Willem de
Kooning's
Two trees on Mary Street
... Amen!
1975, feature in the display
‘Twentieth-century Modernism’. British
modernist works include those by artists
associated with the Camden Town group,
including Walter Sickert, Walter Greaves,
Duncan Grant and Spencer Gore, while
European Modernism is profiled through
works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Chaim
Soutine, Leonardo Dudreville, Fernand
Léger and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, as well
as sculpture by Henry Moore, Barbara
Hepworth and Jacques Lipchitz.
asian collecTion
PhiliP bacOn Galleries (Gallery 7 & 8), QaG
On permanent display in the historical
Asian art galleries are folding screens and
a collection of Neolithic ware from Japan
and China. These are augmented by a
focused selection of ceramics from China,
Japan and Korea, representing a lineage
of cultural exchange between Japan and
China. The theme of cultural interaction is
further considered through a suite of
ukiyo-e
prints from Meiji period Japan (1868–1912),
and new acquisitions that consider the
emergence and influence of photography
in Japan, also during the Meiji period.
The display ‘Empire and Image’ features
works demonstrating the influences and
exchange between Britain, Europe and ‘the
East’ during the colonial period, including
ceramics, textiles, furniture, photography
and works on paper. A developing collection
focus considers the British colonial period
in Asia, represented by a carved teak
screen, Company School paintings, and
late nineteenth century photography from
Ceylon, India and Burma.
Installation view of the Asian art
collection display, Queensland Art
Gallery, October 2010
Installation view of
Orpheus
1956 by
Barbara Hepworth (foreground) and
HillsofHadlow
1957 by Roger de
Grey (background) in the International
art collection display, Philip Bacon
Galleries, Queensland Art Gallery,
October 2010
