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JEFF WALL Photographs

26 May to 10 September 2012


Jeff Wall
After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue
1999-2000
transparency in light box
174 x 250.5, AP
Courtesy of the artist © Jeff Wall

 
Jeff Wall
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993
transparency in light box
250 x 397, unique
Tate, London
Purchased with the assistance from the Patrons of
New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and
from the National Art Collections Fund 1995
© Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall is recognised as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together twenty-six photographs to present an overview of his outstanding achievements featuring key major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large-scale and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art form it is today.

 

Picasso to Warhol: fourteen Modern Masters

16 June  - 3 December 2012

Twelve becomes fourteen
The Gallery announced today that Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters is now Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters with the addition of works from Louise Bourgeois (American, b. France, 1911-2010) and Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988).

As part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Great Collections of the World series, the Gallery together with The Museum of Modern Art will present six world-class exhibitions over three years. The exciting partnership will launch its first, large-scale exhibition entitled Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters in June 2012. The launch exhibition will feature over 100 modern art masterpieces by 14 of the most iconic artists of the 20th century.

     
 
Marcel Duchamp
(American, born France. 1887-1968)
In Advance of the Broken Arm, August 1964
(fourth version, after lost original of November 1915)
Wood and galvanized-iron snow shovel
52" (132 cm) high
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
  Giorgio de Chirico
(Italian, born Greece. 1888-1978)
The Song of Love
Paris, June-July 1914
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 3/8" (73 x 59.1 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

 


 

 

 

 

 

Last reviewed 17 February 2012

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