WORKS OF ART

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 15

WORKS OF ART

COLOURED FACSIMILES

EXHIBITION OPENED

■One hundred and fifty works. of art by great masters and by modern painters of note, .beautifully reproduced in faithfully-coloured facsimiles, are now on view in the National Art Gallery. This is the third such collection that has been made available through the generosity of the Ca.negie Corporation of New York. The collection will remain on view until the end of February, after which it will be taken to other centres in the Dominion. , Included in the collection is a comprehensive selection of'paintings of famous Dutch, British, Flemish, Italian. French, German, and Spanish artists, thoroughly representative of, the,yari-v ous schools of art The originals ofthese are hung in galleries in different j parts of the world, or are in famous private collections, but these reproduc- I tions' enable the artists' work to be studied without the necessity of lengthy travel.. It is an opportunity that art lovers- in Wellington should eagerly avail themselves of, and! their appreciation of the collection will be enhanced by the several lectures on , art which are to be given during the exhibition. Declaring the exhibition open last night, Dr. A. C. Carbery referred to the generosity. of the Carnegie Corporation. -: New•■■Zealand had received, he said, the sum of £10,000 for educational and art purposes, and the j National Art Gallery was spending its share,'£2ooo, on a library of coloured reproductions of old masters and some moderns. To date 390 had been ac--1 quired at a cost^of £1050, very largely through the efforts of Mrs. Murray Fuller and Mr. T. D. H. Hall: while they were in England and America. It was not too easy to get these repro- J ductions in a large size, and some galleries would not allow their treasures to be so reproduced. This ..work of coloured reproduction had , been I brought to a fine art, and the facsimiles were almost equal to the originals. They were invaluable for teaching pur-' poses, as in them the technique of the artist could be studied. Referring to the long apprenticeships served by, the great; jpainters, Dr.. Carbery re-: marked that if some of our modern: painters served as long apprentice-: ships there would be less- jazz-art than c there was."