Claude-Oscar Monet, 'The Water-Lily Pond', 1899. London, The National Gallery.

Paradise

The second exhibition under the Touring Exhibitions Partnership

A National Gallery Touring Exhibition in partnership with Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery: 18 January-30 March 2003
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle: 12 April-29 June 2003

the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

National Gallery, London: 10 July-28 September 2003
Supported by The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The second in the series of touring exhibitions organised with our regional partners in Bristol and Newcastle and generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Drawn principally from the National Gallery's collection the exhibition explored ways in which artists have reinterpreted the visible world to create images of paradise itself, to recall a lost Golden Age or to show the world idealised, as in the paintings by Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Constable.

Also included were pictures by Monet, Gauguin and Stanley Spencer in which the artist transfigured the world according to his own personal vision.

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