After four very busy months, the 'Masterpieces from Paris' exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia has closed.

A total of 476,000 visitors toured the amazing exhibition, featuring the paintings of Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and Picasso.

'It was a breathtaking display of art', according to the Diplomat's General Manager Raylene Deebank. 'We have never been busier and every single guest returned to the Hotel with positive feedback about the exhibition.' 

The National Gallery has several exhibitions planned for the future,

Emerging Elders: honouring senior Indigenous artists

3 October 2009 - 14 June 2010 | Project Gallery
Elders play important roles in Indigenous communities. They are admired and respected as keepers and enforcers of law, stories and culture. They guide communities today as they have done for generations, and their ability to visualise significant stories gives rise to some of Australia's most dynamic and stunning contemporary works of art.

Hans Heysen

14 May - 11 July 2010 | Exhibition Galleries
Hans Heysen (1877-1968) is one of Australia's best-known artists. He was an influential artist, one whose work was pivotal to the development of Australian landscape art in the twentieth century. Comprising 80 works, the exhibition includes oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints.

Space invaders: Australian street stencils and posters

30 October 2010 - 27 February 2011 | Project Gallery
Off the street and into the gallery. This exciting exhibition looks at work from the past 10 years by 35 contemporary artists from around Australia.

Robert Dowling: Tasmanian son of Empire

24 July - 3 October 2010 | Orde Poynton Gallery
Robert Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art. He was the first artist to be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists and their properties, Indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his oeuvre, including his much-lauded oriental subjects.

Life, death and magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asian ancestral art

13 August - 31 October 2010 | Exhibition Galleries
A major exhibition featuring dramatic sculpture, jewellery and textiles revealing the power of art made for rituals of life and death from prehistoric to recent times.
The Gallery's renowned collection of Southeast Asian textiles and gold objects, and important new acquisitions of animist sculpture will be displayed alongside key loans from institutions in Asia, Europe and America.

Ballets Russes: the art of costume

10 December 2010 - 20 March 2011 | Exhibition Galleries
A major exhibition of the Gallery's renowned collection of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes including costumes by artists Natalia Goncharova, Michel Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque, André Masson and Giorgio de Chirico.