SOME ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING
Highlights
An exhibition organised by the British Council and toured in Canada by the National Gallery of Canada. An exhibition of 56 paintings selected by a committee chaired by Sir Philip Hendy, Director of the National Gallery, London. A bi-lingual (English/French) catalogue, with an introduction by David Thompson, was published by the National Gallery of Canada to accompany the show. No ISBN.
The exhibition in Iceland comprised 27 works by nine artists: Alan Davie, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Graham Sutherland, Keith Vaughan and Bryan Wynter.
In Denmark paintings by Francis Bacon, Ceri Richards and Ben Nihcolson were added to the exhibition at the request of the Director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition subsequerntly travelled to Belgrade, Skopje, Zagreb, Cairo, Alexandria and Gibraltar April 1965-October 1966
Past venues
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Denmark, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art
- 11 September 1964 − 11 October 1964
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Canada, Edmonton Art Gallery
- 12 July 1964 − 31 May 1965
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Canada, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
- 09 June 1964 − 30 June 1964
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Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery
- 13 April 1964 − 03 May 1964
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Canada, National Gallery Of Canada
- 13 March 1964 − 05 April 1964
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Canada, Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts
- 04 February 1964 − 01 March 1964
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UK, London, Public Library
- 03 January 1964 − 26 January 1964
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Canada, Art Gallery Of Ontario
- 11 November 1963 − 15 December 1963
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Iceland, Reykjavik, National Museum
- 04 June 1963 − 26 June 1963
