Where will the Musee dOrsay send some of its classic Impressionistic paintings on loan?”
IMPRESSIONISM, that favoured art movement among gallery-goers, is to have another Australian outing with a show of pictures from the famed Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The National Gallery of Australia will today announce an exhibition featuring works from the Orsay, home of so many great Impressionist pictures, to open in Canberra later this year. The NGA’s teaser material prominently features a detail from Van Gogh’s expressionist nocturne, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and one of Gauguin’s Pacific pictures, Tahitian Women. “There has never been an exhibition as important as this at the National Gallery of Australia,” writes the gallery’s director, Ron Radford. “Never before have so many famous masterpieces been brought together in one exhibition in this country.” The Musee d’Orsay opened in a former railway station in Paris in 1986 and last year attracted more than three million visitors. Australians, no less than art-lovers elsewhere, are continually drawn to the styles of painting that
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