SYDNEY.- One of the most ambitious
exhibitions the
Art Gallery of New South Wales has ever undertaken, Paths to abstraction
will
include more than 150 pivotal works by some of the most influential
pioneers of
modernism, spanning 50 years when paintings, drawings and prints edged
their way
by degrees towards purely non-representational images. Curator Terence
Maloon
has secured representative works of more than 40 of the leading artists
of the
late 19th and 20th centuries including Whistler, Monet, Cézanne,
Matisse, Munch,
Gauguin, Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, Derain, Denis, Marc, Duchamp, Braque,
Bonnard
and Mondrian among others.