Who would have thought that the valuable works of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard will grace the city of Canberra from December 4, 2009 up to April 5, 2010 all at the same time?

Most of the prized French paintings included in the exhibit are those that we just see from the history books as they rarely go out of their permanent home at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

Expect to be enthralled by a total of 114 paintings which includes seven paintings from Vincent Van Gogh, five from Claude Monet, eight from Paul Cezanne and nine from Paul Gaugiun to name a few.

Indeed, the National Gallery of Australia is beaming with excitement and pride that they will be able to offer the best of the French art and culture not only to the art lovers but even to novices and art students.  It is the masterpieces first stopover as they will travel to Tokyo and San Francisco to complete the tour.

This event was made possible because the Post-Impressionist Galleries at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris is undergoing a major renovation and decided to lend them all together to different respectable museums in the world.

There are three confirmed masterpieces that will be showcased in the exhibit and that is Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles 1889, Gauguin’s Tahitian women 1891 and Cézanne’s beloved Mount Saint-Victoire c 1890.

These great masters were also friends but some said that their relationship were somehow rocky.  Paul Gauguin even lived on that same Yellow House of Vincent Van Gogh for nine weeks.  If you get the chance to attend the exhibit, if you notice a door on the right of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom painting, that one leads to Gauguin’s own bedroom.

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Degas
Master of French art

12 December 2008 – 22 March 2009

Exhibition hours
10.00 am – 5.00 pm daily
plus Saturday evening 5.00 – 7.00 pm (13 December 2008 – 14 March 2009)

 Location

National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600

For the first time audiences in Australia have the opportunity to see an exhibition devoted to one of the most significant and admired French artists of the nineteenth century, Edgar Degas.

The National Gallery of Australia presents important paintings and sculptures by Degas, as well as drawings, experimental monotypes and photographs. The exhibition draws works from major Degas collections, including Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The exhibition highlights the artist’s favourite themes of modern life in Paris, such as portraits, horseracing, the ballet, laundresses and bathers, and demonstrates his skill as a master painter, sculptor and

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Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas  was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art.

Early in his career, his ambition was to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

 Visit nga.gov.au/Degas here