Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee de lOrangerie, Paris

Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 July

until 8pm

Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris is the show every-one in Sydney is queuing to see, but it must close on Sunday 29 July.

In response to public demand to see this wonderful collection of paintings by many of the great names of 20th century French art, the exhibition will remain open until 8pm on the last four evenings, Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 July.

'The interest in this exhibition is amazing,' said Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 'We fully expected in excess of 1,500 visitors a day, but we are now averaging over 2,000 a day. By the time the exhibition closes on the evening of 29 July, more than 120,000 people will have seen the show.'

The 81 paintings in the collection have come to Australia while the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris undergoes major renovations. Pierre Georgel, Director of the Musee, said during his visit to Sydney that the tour was a one off, and once the building work is completed the paintings will not leave Paris again.

Since the exhibition opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 1 June, over 200,000 people have visited the Gallery, representing an average of 4,500 visitors every day, and of these, almost half have been to the exhibition Renoir to Picasso.

Paris Exhibition closes on Sunday 29 July The Art Gallery of New South Wales will be open until 8pm on Thursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 July enabling visitors to enjoy the last four days of this magnificent exhibition.
Admission $15 adults $10 members/concessions/students
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=36

***OPENING ON SATURDAY 14 JULY: BRETT WHITELEY INTERIORS***

at the Brett Whiteley Studio 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills
Hours Saturdays and Sundays only 10am to 4pm Admission $7 adults $5 concessions Interiors, whether in London, France, New York or Sydney, were important to Brett Whiteley, not only as places in which to live and work, but also as raw material for his imagination. This new exhibition at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills - the artists last home and studio before his death in 1992 - shows the influence his immediate physical environment had on his art.
This exhibition is on view until Sunday 14 October
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=47

Opening on Saturday 18 August The international and Australian contemporary artists in this exhibition invite us on a journey into physical and electronic spaces of imagery, light and sound. Visitors will literally move through art works, interact with ghostly figures and be submerged in limitless space.
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=44

SNOW.NOISE CARSTEN NICOLAI until 5 August

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=40

YIRIBANA ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER GALLERY
At the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 2 September
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=45

RUSSELL DRYSDALE: SUNDAY EVENING 1941 until 23 September
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=42

HEROES AND VILLAINS FROM JAPANS FLOATING WORLD until 19 August
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/index.php4?m=38

DECADES: FROM THE AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTION until 9 September
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/index.php4?e=158