4 JANUARY – 22 MARCH 2020

Margaret's Gift acknowledges and celebrates the generous legacy of AC (1923-2011). Olley was a preeminent artist who had more than 90 solo exhibitions during her lifetime. Using funds from her own exhibition sales Olley would purchase fellow artists works, which she would then in turn donate to numerous galleries. She was also an entrepreneur who invested wisely in residential properties, that in turn brought in a steady income. This put her in a unique position in which she could, not only focus on her own artistic practice but she had the time and means to paint, travel, acquire and donate.

The working relationships and life-long friendships she developed with gallery curators, directors and fellow artists are testament to her unwavering support of art and culture within this country. Throughout her lifetime, Olley continued to donate and provide funds to various institutions. This approach enabled institutions to acquire significant works of art. Many of these works are now considered collection highlights, spanning national, state, regional and university art collections.

The Margaret Olley Art Trust was established in 1990. This legacy continues today, with the ongoing support of the trustees of the Margaret Olley Art Trust, through both donation of work or funds allocated to a specific project. This exhibition is the second in a series of three that has the generous support of the Margaret Olley Art Trust.

Curated by Renée Porter, the exhibition presents over 60 works from collections in Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT and include works by European masters, Australian artists and ceramics from Papua New Guinea which were her earliest known gifts.

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List of Works

Jean Bellette Paul Cezanne Figures in a classical landscape c.1950 Large bathers 1896-1898 oil on plywood 57.3 x 67.3cm colour lithograph 41 x 50.5cm Portrait of Margaret Olley 1940s Bequest of Margaret Olley 2012 Gift of Margaret Olley 2006 drawing in watercolour, brown pen and Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales ink over black pencil 27.6 x 18.4cm Bequest of Margaret Olley AC 2012 Jean Bellette Margaret Cilento 2012.1282 Confrontation 1960 Still life 1947 National Gallery of oil on board 47.5 x 59cm oil on board 59 x 89cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2013 Gift of the Estate of Margaret Olley Tweed Regional Gallery collection through the Queensland Art Gallery Ethel Carrick Fox Foundation 2012 On the beach c.1909 Pierre Bonnard Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of oil on canvas 36 x 42cm Woman with carriage c.1895 Modern Art Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust charcoal and ink 30.5 x 17.8cm through the Queensland Art Gallery Gift of Margaret Olley 2001 Margaret Cilento Foundation 2011 Art Gallery of New South Wales Portrait of Margaret Olley 1954 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of oil on canvas board 42 x 33cm Modern Art Pierre Bonnard Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2013 Nude in front of a mirror 1931 Tweed Regional Gallery collection Lucian Freud pencil 32.0 x 22.0cm After Chardin 2000 Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art Kevin Connor etching 78 x 96cm Trust 2012 Head IV 2000 Gift of Margaret Olley 2000 Art Gallery of New South Wales bronze 40 x 20 x 17cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 2003 Pierre Bonnard Art Gallery of New South Wales Lucian Freud The red cloth 1944-1946 Eli 2002 colour lithograph 53.0 x 66.0cm Lawrence Daws etching 77.5 x 95.3cm Gift of the Margaret Olley 2005 Night sea journey 1994 Gift of Margaret Olley 2003 Art Gallery of New South Wales oil on canvas 144.3 x 165.2cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of Margaret Olley 1995 Rupert Bunny Art Gallery of New South Wales Alberto Giacometti Portrait of Miss Hilary Mackinnon 1913 Seated nude 1965 oil on canvas 115.5 x 96.7 x 8.0cm Roy de Maistre lithograph 96.4 x 76cm Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 2002 Objects on a table c1926 Gift of Margaret Olley 1999 Art Gallery of New South Wales oil on wood panel 31.7 x 28.3cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of the Margaret Olley Trust 2006 Cressida Campbell Newcastle Region Art Gallery Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes The lithographic studio (Griffith Feminine folly c.1816-1824 University) 1986 Edgar Degas etching & aquatint 30 x 43.6cm watercolour pigment paint on carved Two dancers Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2012 woodblock 68.5 x 98cm charcoal on tracing paper Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 62.5 x 36.0cm through the Queensland Art Gallery Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art Duncan Grant Foundation 2009 Trust 2012 Still life with cyclamen c.1914 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Art Gallery of New South Wales oil on board 99.5 x 88.0 x 7.0cm Modern Art Purchased with funds provided by Edgar Degas Margaret Olley & the Sam Hughes Cressida Campbell Dancer in fourth position c.1885 Memorial Fund 1993 White waratah 2000 black chalk and pastel 30 x 23.8cm Art Gallery of New South Wales carved woodblock, hand painted in sheet; 65.0 x 51.0cm frame watercolour pigment 51.5 x 57cm Gift of Margaret Hannah Olley AC 2008 Nicholas Harding Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 2002 National Gallery of Australia Study of Lynne sleeping 1995-1997 Art Gallery of New South Wales oil on board 35.5 x 51cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Trust 2003 Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Nicholas Harding Margaret Olley Margaret Olley River figures (paddle and hat) 2009 Portrait in the mirror 1948 Newcastle harbour 1970-71 ink on paper 115 x 115cm oil on cardboard 68.3 x 84.8cm oil on board 122.4 x 91cm Gift of Margaret Olley 2009 Gift of the artist 2001 Gift of the Margaret Olley AC, AO 2005 Maitland Regional Art Gallery Art Gallery of New South Wales Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Barry Humphries Margaret Olley Margaret Olley Self portrait 2002 Venice 1952 Lemons and ginger jar c.1980 oil on canvas 74.5 x 58.3 cm watercolour over monotype on paper oil on board 49.5 x 75 cm Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art 41.6 x 52.5cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Trust 2003 Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley 2013 National Portrait Gallery Foundation to commemorate the Lismore Regional Gallery University's Centenary and in Max Lieberman recognition of the contribution to the Margaret Olley Lemon, fish and knife 2003 UQ Art Museum by Nick Mitzevich Aubergine and jug c.1982 oil on canvas 55.5 x 71cm (Director 2007--2010), 2010. oil on composition board 67.3 x 90cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Collection of the University of Gift of Margaret Olley AM, 2001 2006 Queensland Collection of The University of Maitland Regional Art Gallery Queensland. Margaret Olley Henri Matisse Still life with kettle 1955 Margaret Olley Portrait of a girl, her head resting on oil on canvas on hardboard Self portrait 2001 her arm, Louis XIV screen behind 1924 84 x 50cm oil on board 76 x 61cm lithograph 43.4 x 34cm Gift of Margaret Olley 2001 Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2012 Gift of Margaret Olley 2005 Art Gallery of New South Wales Tweed Regional Gallery collection Art Gallery of New South Wales Margaret Olley Pablo Picasso Bernard Meninsky Still life 1956 Head of a woman 1948 Still life with pears and grapes 1920s felt tip pen on paper 40 x 52.3cm lithograph 65 x 50cm oil on canvas 67.0 x 82.5cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2015 Gift of Margaret Olley 2006 Purchased with funds provided by Tweed Regional Gallery collection Art Gallery of New South Wales Margaret Olley & the Sam Hughes Memorial Fund 1992 Margaret Olley Pablo Picasso Art Gallery of New South Wales Boonah landscape 1962 Le fumeur [smoker] 1964 oil on board 59.5 x 74.5cm aquatint, printed in coloured inks Giorgio Morandi Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 41.4 x 31.6cm Still life 1933 through the Queensland Art Gallery Bequest of Margaret Olley AC 2012 etching 45 x 44.8cm Foundation 2012 National Gallery of Australia Gift of Margaret Olley 1999 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Art Gallery of New South Wales Modern Art Lucien Pissarro Landscape with houses Giorgio Morandi Margaret Olley pencil on paper 12.1 x 9cm Still life with five objects 1956 Basket of orange, lemons and jugs Gift of the Estate of Margaret Olley etching 38.3 x 49cm (1966) through the Queensland Art Gallery Gift of Margaret Olley 2000 oil on hardboard 95 x 118cm Foundation 2012 Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of the Margaret Olley Trust 2012 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of New England Regional Art Museum Modern Art Justin O’Brien Portrait of Wally Smith 1943 Margaret Olley Ben Quilty oil on cardboard (Red Cross packing Kuala Lumpur 1969 Cullen - before and after 2006 tape) 52.6 x 40.5cm brush, ink and watercolour on paper oil on canvas, diptych 170.3 x 159.8cm Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art 25.7 x 41.4cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Trust 2007 Trust 2012 Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Newcastle Art Gallery collection Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation to commemorate the University's Centenary and in Lloyd Rees Margaret Olley recognition of the contribution to the Still life 1943 North c.1947 UQ Art Museum by Nick Mitzevich oil on board 18 x 29.8cm oil on canvas 54.6 x 76.3cm (Director 2007--2010), 2010. Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2015 Collection of The University of 2013 Tweed Regional Gallery collection Queensland Tweed Regional Gallery collection

Oliffe Richmond Sir Matthew Smith Utagawa Kunisada/Toyokuni III Lizard man 1962 Jugs against vermillion background Pictures of graceful figures of the east bronze 36 x 15 x 15cm 1936-1940 c.1852 Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1996 oil on canvas 64.5 x 80.5cm woodblock print; ink and colour on Art Gallery of New South Wales Purchased with funds provided by paper 49.0 x 89.3cm Margaret Olley & the Sam Hughes Gift of Margaret Olley 2000 William Robinson, Victorian Tapestry Memorial Fund 1992 Art Gallery of New South Wales Workshop Art Gallery of New South Wales Creation landscape: darkness and light Edouard Vuillard 1991 David Strachan Femme dans le studio (Woman in the woollen tapestry 224.5 x 300.5cm The old wall Bricherasio 1959 studio) c.1920 Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1997 oil on canvas on hardboard pencil on paper 20 x 11.5cm Art Gallery of New South Wales 91.0 x 106.5cm Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1997 through the Queensland Art Gallery William Robinson, Victorian Tapestry Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation 2012 Workshop Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Study panel for: Creation landscape: David Strachan Modern Art darkness and light Still life c.1967 interpretative text, colour photograph oil on canvas on board 44.5 x 39cm Edouard Vuillard of source painting, wool samples, Gift of the Margaret Olley Estate 2013 Madame Prosper Emilr Weil at her desk watercolour 102.8 x 122.5cm Tweed Regional Gallery collection c.1923 Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1997 pastel and distemper on paper Art Gallery of New South Wales Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec mounted on board 82.5 x 75.5 x 8.0cm Madamoiselle Marcelle Lender en Gift of Margaret Olley 1999 John Russell buste 1895 Art Gallery of New South Wales Madame Sisley on the banks of the colour lithograph 36.5 x 27.5cm Loing at Moret (1887) Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art Anne Wienholt oil on canvas 53.0 x 78.5 x 9.5cm Trust 2012 (Head of a girl) 1979 Purchased with assistance from the Art Gallery of New South Wales pencil on paper 35.5 x 32cm Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1996 Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Art Gallery of New South Wales Unknown, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2006 Kamana (eating bowl) 1960s Maitland Regional Art Gallery [collected] Self portrait 2001 earthenware 30.0cm diam x 15.0cm Anne Wienholt charcoal & pastel on paper 48 x 32cm Gift of Margaret Olley 1984 The medium 1984 Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art Art Gallery of New South Wales bronze 25.4 x 19.0 x 22.8cm Trust 2002 Gift of Margaret Olley 1988 National Portrait Gallery Unknown, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Art Gallery of New South Wales Kamana (eating bowl) 1960s Jeffrey Smart [collected] Anne Wienholt Labyrinth 2011 earthenware 30.0cm diam x 15.0cm Nine urgent messengers 1988 oil on canvas 100 x 100cm Gift of Margaret Olley 1984 bronze 17.8 x 23.1 x 16.9cm Purchased with the assistance of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of the Margaret Olley Trust 1997 Margaret Olley Art Trust and Mr Phillip Newcastle Region Art Gallery Bacon AM in honour of Dr Ron Radford AM. Director NGA 2004-2014, 2014. National Gallery of Australia

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