Nothing like it for thirty years
TE PAPA’s biggest exhibition – and in fact the country’s biggest – since the 1980 Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition at the National Art Gallery starts on Saturday.
“We’ve had nothing like this for 30 years,” Te Papa curator of European art Victoria Robson says of European Masters: 19th–20th century art from the Städel Museum.
The thing that makes it so special is the scale of the exhibition: 96 works by 70 of the worlds art masters, painted between 1786 and 1950.
“We just don’t get to see these paintings in New Zealand very often.”
Robson was asked to name her standouts, but she found this hard to do, because of the scale of the exhibition and how many works are included.
But, she concedes, suggesting La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon), by Renoir, and “one of the best paintings in the world” Pablo Picasso’s 1909 Portrait de Fernande Olivier.
She saw the exhibition in Melbourne in July this year.
“Some of them are just knock-out paintings. The reproductions do not do these paintings justice in terms of the scale and the workmanship. You just don’t get that from a catalogue.”
European Masters: 19th–20th century art from the Städel Museum, Te Papa, November 6 to February 27.
“We’ve had nothing like this for 30 years,” Te Papa curator of European art Victoria Robson says of European Masters: 19th–20th century art from the Städel Museum.
The thing that makes it so special is the scale of the exhibition: 96 works by 70 of the worlds art masters, painted between 1786 and 1950.
“We just don’t get to see these paintings in New Zealand very often.”
Robson was asked to name her standouts, but she found this hard to do, because of the scale of the exhibition and how many works are included.
But, she concedes, suggesting La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon), by Renoir, and “one of the best paintings in the world” Pablo Picasso’s 1909 Portrait de Fernande Olivier.
She saw the exhibition in Melbourne in July this year.
“Some of them are just knock-out paintings. The reproductions do not do these paintings justice in terms of the scale and the workmanship. You just don’t get that from a catalogue.”
European Masters: 19th–20th century art from the Städel Museum, Te Papa, November 6 to February 27.
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