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Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, 颁茅锄补苍苍别 and beyond features 112 of some of the best-known works of modern art from the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay in Paris, one of the great museums of 19th-century art. Famous works include Van Gogh鈥檚 Bedroom at Arles 1889, 颁茅锄补苍苍别鈥檚 beloved Mount Saint-Victoirec 1890, Gauguin鈥檚 Tahitian women 1891, as well as many other great examples of Post-Impressionist art. A collaboration between the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay and the National Gallery of Australia, this extraordinary exhibition is one of the most spectacular to come to Australia.

Masterpieces from Paris explores the dramatic changes in late 19th century European art through some of the best-known and much-reproduced paintings. Indeed many of these paintings are central to the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay鈥檚 high reputation, both in France and world-wide. There are only a handful of Post-Impressionist works in Australia鈥攊ncluding Georges Seurat鈥檚 study for Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp 1885 at the National Gallery of Australia鈥攕o the opportunity to create an exhibition from a single collection of such outstanding quality is rare indeed.

Post-Impressionism announces a break from Impressionism, the revolutionary movement which occurred in France in the second half of the 19th century. By the mid 1880s, artists were experimenting with even more radical ideas. Van Gogh鈥檚 intense, richly coloured surfaces communicate emotionally through the artist鈥檚 expressive manipulation of paint. Gauguin鈥檚 monumental, decorative and often exotic works stand for a new and at times brutal aesthetic directness.

颁茅锄补苍苍别鈥檚 mastery of the genres of still-life, landscape and portraiture fulfils his own prophetic promise to 鈥榓stonish with an apple!鈥� These artists encapsulate the challenges to painting and the development of a multi-faceted avant-garde at this time: Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism, Synthetism, Symbolism, School of Pont-Aven, Cloisonnism, the Nabis and Intimism.

In addition to some of the most famous painters, the exhibition includes Symbolist masterworks by artists who are now less known to a general public, but who had a profound impact on their contemporaries. Visitors will find jewel-like domestic scenes and figures, portraits of friends and family members, as well as several large decorative schemes designed for specific interiors. Masterpieces from Paris reveals cross-influences between artists, and shows the flowering of the modern movements throughout Europe. These fascinating paintings forecast the development of Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism and led also to Abstraction in the 20th century.