The Great Impressionists

Australia, 1984

Film
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The Great Impressionists exhibition at the Australian National Gallery in 1984 featured works of leading Impressionists such as Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Pissaro, Gauguin and Seurat. The script, explaining the priceless collection on loan from the Courtauld Institute in London, was written by the Gallery’s Senior Curator of Education, Terence Measham with the express desire to delight and entertain as well as inform.

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Credits

producer

Steve Isaac

production company

Australian National Gallery

Capital 7 Canberra

Duration

00:13:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

325095

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Australian National Gallery

Crafts & Visual Arts → Impressionism (Art)

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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