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 Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Video gives sneak preview of new exhibition


Wednesday 02 February 11

Detail of a portrait of a pale woman with red lips looking upwardsA detail of 'St Lucy' by Vouet - one of the paintings featured in the exhibition 
© David Lewis family interests

We've just released a new video to give you all a sneak preview of our upcoming exhibition 'A Collector's Eye: Cranach to Pissarro', opening on Friday 18 February at the Walker Art Gallery! 

Our video gives a taste of what's going to be on display and lets you 'zoom in' and get closer to some of the paintings.

The exhibition will show the changing tastes of prolific art collector, David Lewis and his family. Expect to see serene landscapes by Sisley, a dramatic battle scene by Rubens and stunning portraits like the Vouet work pictured above.

If you want to see the exhibition before everyone else, then enter our Twitter competition! Up for grabs are 3 pairs of tickets to the private view of the exhibition at the Walker on Thursday 17 February.

To enter you should:

1. Log into Twitter
2. Go to @livmuseums and make sure you are following us
3. Find our recent tweet about the new video (tweeted on 1 February)
4. Re-tweet it
5. Wait and see if your name is picked out of the draw!

Do make sure you are following us though, so we can let you know if your name has been pulled out of the hat! The competition closes at midnight on Monday 14 February and we will inform all winners via Twitter, on Tuesday 15 February.

Full competition details can be found here.


Posted by Lisa | 02/02/2011 14:16   | Comments [0]

Posted in: exhibitions | walker art gallery
Tagged with: art | Cranach | El Greco | fine art | liverpool | painting | Pissarro | Rubens | Sisley

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