Cezanne to Giacometti: Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie

Don't miss out on your copy of the exhibition book on this year's NGA blockbuster exhibition: Cezanne to Giacometti: Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie

Embark on a vivid journey through the dynamic changes in, and interchanges between, European and Australian art in the twentieth century. Museum Berggruen is one of the most exceptional modernist collections in the world, including masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti. By putting these works in dialogue with the National Gallery of Australia’s rich collection of modernist artists, such as Cossington Smith, John Passmore, Grace Crowley, Hirschfeld Mack, Inge King and Rosemary Madigan, we can illuminate the electrifying way in which ideas, techniques and artists moved across the borders of space, time and culture.

A major collaborative essay researched and written by Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator, Australian Art; David Greenhalgh, Curator, International Art; and Natalie Zimmer, Curator, Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie—Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, explores how these artists took inspiration from one other and the circulation of images, objects and artworks that marked the modern age. Dr Gabriel Montua, Head of Museum Berggruen, and Simeran Maxwell, Associate Curator, Australian Art, and other scholars provide further illumination through annotated works.

This stunning book features over 140 colour reproductions and a conveniently compact flat-opening format with bookmarking gatefold.