Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Housed in the Octagon, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is one of New Zealand’s four major metropolitan art galleries.

Housed in the Octagon, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is one of New Zealand’s four major metropolitan art galleries. It houses the city's main public art collection of old, modern and contemporary works, by national and foreign artists. It exhibits art across various media such as paintings, sculpture, prints, and decorative arts. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has the most extensive collection of old master paintings in New Zealand and the most significant holdings of paintings by post 1800 overseas artists. There is a section dedicated to works by Dunedin-born Frances Mary Hodgkins, showcasing masterpieces such as 'Maori Girl on a Boat', 'Summer' and 'Still Life with Fruit Dishes'. Other highlights include Garofalo's 'Madonna and Child Enthroned', Salvator Rosa's 'Rocky Landscape with Figures. Raphael's 'Apollo and Marsyas', Albrecht Dürer's 'The Assumption of the Virgin', Rembrandt's 'Portrait of Rembrandt Laughing', Giordano's 'The Annunciation', Claude Lorrain's 'Landscape with Hagar and the Angel', Constable's 'Brighton Beach', and Monet's 'La Débâcle'.