RECONSTRUCTION
We can now report that the Gallery renovations are nearly completed—or will have been by the time this
number is issued. The Gallery has had one or other of its major rooms shut over the past four years, so that for the first time
for a long time the Gallery will be fully open and the bulk of the permanent collection placed on view. This very necessary
reconstruction has had, however, a very serious effect on attendance figures and it will take a reasonable period to build
them up again.
GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
We are pleased to announce three new publications on the permanent collection:
A Handbook to Twentieth Century Sculpture
A Colonial View (Early New Zealand
paintings)
Rowlandsons Drawings
All three are fully illustrated and documented and should increase the visitor's
interest in the Gallery collections.
AUCKLAND GALLERY ASSOCIATES
On February 25 the Associates formally pre-sented WINDOWS
by John Bratby (see page 4) to the Gallery.
A second successful open air art exhibition was held by the Associates in Albert
Park from March 4 to March 7.
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HENRI HAYDEN (Born 1883)
STILL, LIFE WITH GUITAR, BOTTLE OF
BASS AND FRUIT. See Cover.
Oil on canvas 32 x 21 ins.
Signed H. Hayden.
This cubist painting was recently purchased by the Committee. It can be dated approximately 1919-20.
Hayden was born in Warsaw, and came to Paris in 1907 (the year in which Cubism was born). He was at first
influenced by the Fauves, but by 1916 had joined the Cubists.
Hayden has worked a great deal in isolation. and it was only in 1911 that he held his first exhibition. In the first
Cubist exhibition of 1920, Hayden exhibited his Three Musicians which antedates Picasso's work by a year.
He formed a close friendship with Juan Gris. Both Marcoussis and Hayden have been overshadowed
until recent years by their greater brethren, Picasso, Braque and Gris, but both Marcoussis and Hayden had something of their
own to contribute to the movement and Hayden's was that of lyricism. His painting is light in tone and in the rhythmic colour
pattern which he lays over the fundamental idea of Cubism—the analysis of form. As the painters Gleizes and Metzinger
wrote in Du Cubisms: '...The act of composing, constructing and designing amount to this: that the dynamic of form
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