Picasso and Matisse are "stuck" in Australia
ARTinvestment.RU   31 марта 2020

About a hundred works from the collections of major museums in Europe and the USA from-за the closing of borders and cessation of flights can't go home

One of the obvious consequences of global measures to curb the spread of the virus COVID-19, including the closure of borders and termination of international traffic is full stop logistics art-сервисов on many fronts. Illustration of this is nearly a hundred works by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, indefinitely "stuck" in the walls of the National gallery of art in Canberra. All these works brought to Australia from 23 museums worldwide, including Tate (London), the Metropolitan-музей (new-Йорк) and Picasso Museum (Paris), was part of a large scale, the country's first personal exhibits these artists, called "Picasso&Матисс", held from 13 Dec 2019 23 Mar 2020.

"[These works] will be with us for as long as Museum staff will not be able to come to Australia to pick them up", — said Nick Mitsevich, Director of the National gallery of Australia.

Move paintings between countries and continents — complicated and responsible process, which in addition to logistics companies usually enabled professionals providing insurance, and of course, Museum curators, whose task is to control the state of the carried works.

simply put, the most valuable paintings can be sent anywhere by themselves, unaccompanied. And if people are limited in movement, and the picture too. And it's not just this exhibition, but of exhibition projects around the world. The national art gallery of Australia is no exception. While it keeps within its walls a hundred works by Picasso and Matisse, more than thousand pictures of her funds are in a similar situation in museums and galleries around the world. And it's not like it's going to be able to return home soon.

"At the moment our Francis bacon is in Houston, "Haystack" Monet — in Germany, and his "Water lilies" — at the Art gallery of NSW, and a series of works by ned Kelly — in Cairns", -— said Micevic.

works of art from Europe and America not for the first time are "trapped" in Australia. Last time this happened in 1939, when-за the beginning of the Second world war and the cessation of flights in the country for many years remained 217 exhibits of French and British contemporary art Herald: 189 paintings, 16 works on paper and 12 sculptures by Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, Paul cézanne, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and other artists.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova AI

Source: smh.com.au