Impressionism in Melbourne French and Australian masterpieces at the NGV Overview Essential information This winter, Melbourne hosts two outstanding exhibitions of Covid-19 guarantee: Yes Impressionist painting. At the NGV International more than Tour dates: August 3-6, 2021 100 masterpieces by Monet, Mary Cassatt, Pissarro and Price per person: $2,580 Degas from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts are on show, 79 Supplement for sole use of double of which have never been seen before in Australia. If that room: $870 weren’t enough, NGV Australia has created the largest Maximum number in group: 20 exhibition of Australian Impressionism to date: more than Start: 5.30pm, August 3, hotel 250 works by exceptional Australian artists. Finish: 3pm August 6, Melb Airport This four-day tour takes you into the heart of Impressionism Deposit: $500 per person in France and Australia, with background lectures and visits Fitness level to the exhibitions. To understand more of the context behind Australian Impressionism, we visit the properties of Good overall fitness, ability to Melbourne’s cultural luminaries who helped shape the art spend time on one’s feet in galleries and culture of Victoria. The tour is rounded out with a Hotel performance by the MTC, a day trip to the Mornington Peninsula and fine dining. Deluxe rooms at the 5-star The Langham Hotel (3 nights) Tour leaders Weather Dr Michael Adcock, the tour lecturer, is a historian who specialises in 18th to 20th century Europe and our resident Melbourne winter: daily maximum expert in all things Impressionist. Dr Nick Gordon is a of around 15˚C and some rain historian and artist who has led art-focussed tours in Europe Further information and and Australia for 15 years. His artist’s eye and deep bookings knowledge of the history of art in Australia complements Michael’s academic expertise. Hannah Kleboe 02 9235 0023, [email protected] Detailed itinerary Tuesday 3 August – Cyrano We meet in the hotel at 5.30pm for an early dinner, before we attend The Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cyrano, Virginia Gay’s gender-swapped adaptation of the Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. (D) Wednesday 4 August – The Mornington Peninsula Today we travel to the Mornington Peninsula, where many of Melbourne’s cultural luminaries created bayside villas. Our first stop is Beleura, an estate founded in the 1860s by James Butchart, a Scottish migrant who became the wealthiest man in Victoria. We enjoy lunch at one of the peninsula’s excellent wineries. In the afternoon we visit Mulberry Hill, the estate of Sir Daryl and Lady Joan Lyndsay (respectively: director of the Highlights NGV and the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock). Back in Melbourne we have an in-depth presentation by Dr Michael Impressionist masterpieces from Adcock focusing on the Impressionism from the Boston MFA the Boston MFA (B, L) An exclusive exhibition at the NGV with over 100 works on show, most Thursday 5 August – Boston MFA and Goya exhibitions of which have never been seen in This morning we visit the Impressionism exhibition at the NGV Australia, International. Boston Museum of Fine Arts has one of the finest collections of Impressionism in the world, and the NGV Australian impressionism show includes no fewer than 16 works by Monet. In the mid- This monumental exhibition is a afternoon, after a break for lunch, we visit the NGV’s Goya must-see for all lovers of Australian exhibition, with 44 Goya drawings from the Prado and 120 art and includes the nation-defining prints, primarily from the NGV’s collection. In the early art of Clara Southern and Frederick evening, Dr Michael Adcock gives a detailed presentation on McCubbin. the Australian Impressionists, after which we have dinner in a Goya from the Prado French inspired restaurant. (B, D) An exhibition exclusive to the NGV Friday 6 August – Australian Impressionism featuring 44 of Goya’s drawings on This morning we visit She Oak and Sunrise, the extraordinary loan from the Prado in Madrid and exhibition of Australian Impressionism at NGV Australia. This 120 prints, including the complete exhibition, the largest to date of Australian Impressionism has Disasters of War series. masterpieces by Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Estates of the Mornington Streeton, Jane Sutherland and Clara Southern. In addition to Peninsula these much-loved giants of Australian art are masterpieces by Visit Beleura, formerly the their less well-known, but equally gifted, contemporaries residence of composer John Tallis which help us understand the bigger picture of this and Mulberry Hill, the home of momentous movement in Australian art. The exhibition Daryl and Joan Lindsay, as well as includes more than 250 works from public and private sampling the food and wine of the collections and for a show of this size, we have reserved two region. entry times for you, so you can take your time and a lunch break between visits. In the mid-afternoon, a coach is available for those taking early evening flights from Melbourne airport. (B) [email protected] academytravel.com.au .