Claude Monet [1840-1926 French] La Débâcle 1880. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1982 by Mary, Dora and Esmond de Beer through the National Art Collections Fund, London.
Jacopo del Casentino [1315-1349 Italian] Two Wings from a Triptych c.1340-1350. Tempera and gold on wood. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1982 by Mary, Dora and Esmond de Beer through the National Art Collections Fund, London.
Guidoccio Cozzarelli [1450-1516 Italian] Dance of Salome 1516. Oil on panel. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1967 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
William Dobson [1611-1646 English] Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1931 with funds from the Robert Hay Fund.
Jacques-Joseph Tissot [1836-1902 French] Waiting for the Train (Willesden Junction) c.1871-1873. Oil on panel. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1921 with funds from the Thomas Brown Fund.
Eden Box [1919-1988 British] The Beach 1949. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1952 by the Contemporary Art Society, London.
Stanley Spencer [1892-1959 British] Merville Garden Village near Belfast 1951. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1952 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
CREAM
European Paintings from the Collection
4 November 2006 - 18 March 2007
The exhibition Cream presents a rich confection of European paintings drawn from the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Founded in 1884, the Dunedin gallery is the oldest public art gallery in New Zealand and has one of the finest collections of European art in the country. The works in Cream span the realms of space, time and subject, ranging from Jacopo del Casentino’s spiritually charged mid 14th century Florentine panel paintings, to Englishman Stanley Spencer’s seemingly benign but spiritually suggestive mid 20th century back yard garden scene. In between sit many of the public’s all-time favourite works, including William Dobson’s smoulderingly dark portrait of the cavalier Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Tissot’s mysteriously hypnotic Waiting for the Tain, Monet’s cool La Débâcle and Eden Box’s adorable sea-side frolic in The Beach.
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