Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki has announced it will host ‘A Century of Modern Art’ as its special winter exhibition this year.
The pieces in the show, on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio while that gallery undergoes renovations, introduce some of the visionary painters who transformed modern art.
Paintings from Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh are among the 57 works by 53 artists.
Works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Helen Frankenthaler, Édouard Manet, William Merritt Chase, Amedeo Modigliani, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, James McNeill Whistler, will also be on show, among others.
“The exhibition includes works by legendary art figures, including Vincent van Gogh, whose work hasn’t been publicly displayed here in Aotearoa in over a decade,” explains Tātaki Auckland Unlimited Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Kirsten Lacy.
‘A Century of Modern Art’ showcases the diversity and innovation that defined modern art movements,” says Lacy. “From the emotive brushstrokes of Van Gogh to the evocative landscapes of Monet and Rauschenberg’s bold abstractions, these works not only revolutionised Western art history but continue to inspire new generations.”
A Century of Modern Art will be presented alongside Auckland Art Gallery’s highly-visited The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity. A Century of Modern Art traces the birth of modern painting, beginning with the Impressionists in the 1860s, and follows its evolution through key movements such as PostImpressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Surrealism, Constructivism, German Expressionism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Precisionism, and Colour Field Painting and Abstract Expressionism.
A Century of Modern Art
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Sat 7 June–Sun 28 September 2025