The National Gallery of Australia's collection of International art is our nation's greatest collection of modern art, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The collections of European, American and British art are among the Gallery's great strengths. Reflecting the diverse creative practices of modern and contemporary artists the collection includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, illustrated books and decorative arts.
Presently on display are works representing the most influential art movements of this period by artists who made transforming breakthroughs including Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Kasimir Malevich, Jackson Pollock, Helen
Frankenthaler, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Agnes Martin, Constantin Brancusi and Anselm Kiefer.
Also notable among the current displays are works by artists belonging to the Pont-Aven school, the group of younger artists who formed around Gauguin, paving the way for so many aspects of early twentieth century
modernism. This includes the NGA's new acquisition of Paul Serusier's, La Savoyarde [Woman from Savoy] 1890. An exhibition focused on the prints and photographs of Otto Dix and August Sander explores the artistic responses of these two important artists to Germany's defeat in the First World War. An in-depth study of David Hockney's prints, including his new digital prints, is on display in the Orde Poynton Gallery.
New acquisitions
Special focus
Related exhibitions
- Andy and Oz: Parallel Visions
- Anne Dangar at Moly-Sabata: tradition and innovation
- Bill Viola: The Passions
- Chihuly: masterworks in glass
- Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky
- Degas: master of French art
- French paintings: from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier
- Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera & Mexican modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
- Gary Hill & Bruce Nauman: new international media art
- Hockney masterworks in paint
- In a flash
- Jackson Pollock: before Blue Poles
- Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond
- Monet & Japan
- Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
- Natural causes
- New worlds from old: 19th Century Australian and American landscapes
- Not a super highway: Nam June Paik’s cars for the 20th century
- Pierre Bonnard: observing nature
- Printed light: photographic vision and the modern print
- Read my lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman
- Rembrandt: a genius and his impact
- Revealing the Holy land: the photographic exploration of Palestine
- Revolutionary Russians
- Rodin: sculpture and drawings
- Sean Scully: body of light
- Secession: modern art and design in Austria & Germany 1890s–1920s
- Soft sculpture
- The Book of Kells: & the art of illumination
- The Italians: three centuries of Italian art
- Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape
- An artist abroad: the prints of James McNeill Whistler
- After image:screenprints of Andy Warhol
- Against the grain: Helen Frankenthaler woodcuts
- An artist abroad: the prints of James McNeill Whistler
- Dance hall days: French posters from Chéret to Toulouse-Lautrec
- First impressions the early history of lithography – a comparative survey
- Matisse: the art of drawing
- Monet & Japan
- Picasso & The Vollard Suite
- Printed light: photographic vision and the modern print
- Read my lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman
- Robert Rauschenberg 1967–1978
- Rosenquist: Welcome to the water planet
- Rough cuts: European figurative prints from Gauguin to Paladino
- Secession: modern art and design in Austria & Germany 1890s–1920s
- Sol LeWitt: drawings, prints and books 1968-1988
- Stella & Tyler: masterworks in print
- The Birth of the Modern Poster
- The big Americans: the art of collaboration
- The universal soldier: John Walker's Passing Bells
- War: The prints of Otto Dix
Select publications
- Building the collection Pauline Green, editor, 2003
- Douglas Annand: the art of life Anne McDonald, 2001
- French paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier Michel Hilaire, Jörg Zutter and Olivier Zeder, editors, 2003
- Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican modernism: the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection, Anthony White editor, 2001
- Lucian Freud: after Cézanne, 2001
- Pierre Bonnard: observing nature Jörg Zutter, editor, 2003
- Rodin: sculpture and drawings 2001
- Sean Scully: body of light, 2004
- Secession: modern art and design in Austria and Germany 1890s–1920s Christine Dixon, 2000
- An artist abroad: the prints of James McNeill Whistler Jane Kinsman, 2005
- Building the collection Pauline Green, editor, 2003
- Monet and Japan, 2001
- The big Americans: the art of collaboration, Jane Kinsman, 2002
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