An exhibition of nude art on loan from the Tate collection opens at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts tomorrow.
“Nude: Masterpieces from Tate” is to include a selection of more than 120 paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings collected over the British institution’s 120-year history.
The highlight of the exhibition is the Tate’s version of Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss.
Photo: Ko Yu-hao, Taipei Times
This is the first time the 1904 sculpture — one of three full-scale marble versions made in the French sculptor’s lifetime — is to be shown in Taiwan.
Other artworks that are to be on display at a public art museum in Taiwan for the first time include works by Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin.
The exhibition is also to include works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning, bringing the total value of the artworks at the exhibition to NT$10 billion (US$327.42 million).
Staff from the Tate accompanied the works to Kaohsiung from Japan’s Yokohama Museum of Art, where they were being displayed.
Kaohsiung is the last stop on the exhibition’s international tour.
The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts on Monday unboxed Bonnard’s 1925 painting Nude in the Bath, which was supposed to return to London after its appearance in Japan.
However, due to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts’ efforts, not only is the painting to be exhibited in Kaohsiung, but the Tate has also delivered another work by Bonnard from London to include in the exhibition.
“Nude: Masterpieces from Tate” is the museum’s first international exhibition after becoming an administrative corporation last year, Kaohsiung Deputy Mayor Shih Che (史哲) said.
The exhibition runs through Oct. 28.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
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