
Petrus van der Velden Burial in the Winter on the Island of Marken (The Dutch Funeral) 1875. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gift of Henry Charles Drury van Asch 1932

George Leslie In the Wizard’s Garden c.1904. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented to the Canterbury Society of Arts by W. Harris, 1907; given to the Gallery in 1932

Jan Frans van Son Flowers in a vase c.1685. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased with assistance from the National Art Collections Fund of Great Britain 1973

John Gibb Lyttelton Harbour, N.Z. Inside the Breakwater 1886. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, presented by the Lyttelton Harbour Board 1989
This exhibition is now closed
New perspectives on ten of the Gallery’s best-loved paintings.
Who were the refugees in Frances Hodgkins’s Unshatterable? Why does the young woman in the Wizard’s Garden look so troubled? Where did the special peonies in Jan Franz van Son’s Flowers in a Vase come from? And what was Gerrit Dou’s seventeenth-century Physician peering at in the glass flask? From the bustling port of Lyttelton to a wintery Dutch funeral, Closer uncovers the stories behind ten of the Gallery’s most famous paintings—told through new video, audio and photographs.
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Date:
16 December 2017 – 26 August 2018 -
Location:
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū -
Curator:
Peter Vangioni, Felicity Milburn, Lara Strongman, Ken Hall -
Exhibition number:
1052 -
Historical Collection Art Partner