Adelaide Museum The Impressionists

I planned a week in Adelaide to see the 

COLOURS OF IMPRESSIONISM 

MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSÉE D'ORSAY 

at the Art gallery of SA where the exhibition was showing, not to be going anywhere else. 
I booked a flight on points and stayed at a lovely hotel just nearby getting an upgrade to Superior rooms from my status on Booking.com The room was lovely even with a great bath and a balcony!! and (at last Australia is catching up ) unlimited wifi, all in easy walking distance.

 The Gallery itself is a beautiful historic building one of 5-6 along the North terrace  backed by the Botanic gardens

The layout of the exhibition was interesting charting the revolution of colour that lies at the heart of Impressionism and includes master works by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro and Cézanne, among many others. So each room and an emphasis on a different colour- From the dark tones of Manet's Spanish-influenced paintings, to the rich green and blue hues of the French countryside as painted by Cézanne, Monet and Pissarro, to the rosy pigments of Renoir's and Morisot's female figures, the exhibition traces the development of colour in the Impressionists' radical reshaping of painting in the nineteenth century.

Dark tones in this work by Alfred Stevens Le Bain 

The use of white pigments (a  new trend) Claude Monet The Magpie 

 This section also showed the influence of the Japanese woodblock artists Hiroshige and Hokusai a they frequently pained snow.

The Seine & Notre Dame with shades of blue in shadows Johann Bartholdi Jongkind

This was the artist palette of Monet 

Paul Signac The Riverbanks highlight use of greens

And of course Claude Monet Water Lily ponds with pinks and green 

This is by Claude Cezanne who often uses orange tints 

This is by Berthe Morisot called the Hydrangea
or The sister 

 I had read a book recently about a Berthe Morisot forgery (or theft) and I hadn't heard of her so nice to see it!

This is Auguste Renoir's son Claude
it was tradition to not cut boy's hair till they were 6
So Renoir often painted his lovely red hair 

These 2 are by Paul Signac  

Paul Signac was interested in Neo-Impressionism techniques called  "Divisionism" and "Pointillism" The rapid, varied brushstrokes of his Impressionist style, intended to convey the effects of light on objects, were transformed into the small, roughly square points of Neo-Impressionism. Signac, Seurat, and their fellow Neo-Impressionists began a process in Modernism of breaking down the basic components of a painting, in a way, separating color from the objects it described - an important step toward the further abstraction by later artists.

Claude Monets Tulip Field in holland Again with lots of colour