Discs of Newton (Study for 'Fugue in two colours') 1912
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 2010 United States
František Kupka (Bohemia/France, 1871-1957). oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.7
Paths to abstraction
Lower Level 2
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 26 June 2010 to Sunday 19 September 2010
One of the most ambitious exhibitions the Gallery has ever undertaken, featuring 140-plus works by some of the most influential artists of the modern era, including Whistler, Cézanne, Monet, Seurat, Vuillard, Bonnard, Gauguin, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Hans Arp and Sophie Taüber-Arp.
The most influential artists of the modern era are shown in strength in an exhilarating journey spanning 50 years, when paintings, drawings and prints edged their way by degrees towards purely non-representational images. An explosion of creative invention propelled these 140-plus works by Whistler, Cézanne, Monet, Seurat, Vuillard, Bonnard, Gauguin, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Hans Arp and Sophie Taüber-Arp…
This is one of the most ambitious exhibitions the Art Gallery of NSW has ever undertaken.
