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New Dawn Fades

10 November 2018 –
23 February 2020

A selection of the Gallery’s most-treasured historical European artworks.

A selection of the Gallery’s most-treasured historical European artworks.

Marvel at the exquisite brushwork of Gerrit Dou’s The Physician (1653), the quiet sorrow of Petrus van der Velden’s Marken Funeral Barge (c.1873), the unrepentant celebration of the industrial in L.S. Lowry’s Factory at Widnes (1956) or the astonishingly simplified clarity and beauty of Frances Hodgkins’s Still Life (1932). New Dawn Fades presents a broad selection of some of Christchurch Art Gallery’s most-treasured European artworks from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Many of these works formed the foundation collection when the Gallery first opened in 1932 and have continued to be enjoyed by generations of visitors over the years.

Curator:
Peter Vangioni

Exhibition number: 1063

Petrus van der Velden House on the Heath c.1887. Oil on hardboard. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1968

Joost Droochsloot Soldiers in a Village c.1645. Oil on canvas. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased with the assistance of Adriaan and Gabrielle Tasman, 1996

Frances Hodgkins Spanish Still Life and Landscape c.1932. Oil on wood panel. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1979

Odilon Redon Dans mon Rêve, je vis au Ciel un Visage de Mystère. (In my dream I saw in the sky a face of mystery) 1885. Lithograph. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased with assistance from the Olive Stirrat Bequest 1986