Colours of Impressionism:
Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay

ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA | ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
29 MARCH – 29 JULY 2018

More than 65 Impressionist masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris will feature in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 29 March to 29 July 2018.

Titled Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, the exhibition charts the revolution of colour that lies at the very heart of Impressionism. This curatorial approach is unique in its exploration of colour as the guiding force behind the evolution of the nineteenth century's most important art movement.

From the dark tones of Manet's Spanish-influenced paintings, to the rich green and blue hues of the French countryside as painted by Cézanne, Monet and Pissarro, to the rosy pigments of Renoir's and Morisot's female figures, the exhibition traces the development of colour in the Impressionists' radical reshaping of painting in the nineteenth century.