AGNSW
You are invited to the Official Opening of the exhibition
CHARLES CONDER RETROSPECTIVE - Thursday 12 June 2003 at 11am
To be opened by Mr. Barry Humphries in the new Rudy Komon Gallery at
the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder are considered to have laid the foundation of the great Heidelberg school of impressionism of the late nineteenth century in Australia. Conder is without doubt the most enigmatic, the most charming, the most bohemian, and the only one to go on to become a legendary figure of the international art world of Paris and London.
Charles Conder helped change forever the way Australians saw their country, and he went on to summarise so evocatively a sense of the closing of the century in European culture.
This first retrospective tracks the artist's Australian period through
his famous Heidelberg images, to his inspiring years in Paris where as
an habitué of the Moulin Rouge he became close friends with such
luminaries as Toulouse-Lautrec and Anquetin, and in England and France
where he counted Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Dowson
amongst his intimates.
The exhibition includes 112 paintings, drawings and watercolours on silk, drawn from public and private collections throughout Australia and Britain, including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Charles Conder Retrospective
ON VIEW
Saturday 14 June to Sunday 17 August 2003
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney
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(02) 9225 1744 or recorded information (02) 9225 1790
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$10 adults $7 members/ concessions
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