While almost everyone is familiar with the art treasures on display at the Louvre, or the Tate in London, or other notable museums of art in Europe, few people I speak to are aware of the depth of the collection held at Prague's National Gallery.
Pablo Picasso's Seated Nude 1906.
During its two-hundred year history, the National Gallery in Prague has expanded and improved its core collection into five specialised sections - Old Masters, 19th Century Art, Modern & Contemporary Art, Prints & Drawings, and Oriental Art.
When you realize the collections include works by Masters such as El Greco, Veronese, Albrecht Durer, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, and Delacroix you start to understand the depth of the collection.
When you also see works displayed by Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Andre' Derain, Georges Braque, Frantisek Kupka, Pierre Bonnard, Oskar Kokoschka, Joan Miro' - it just goes on and on.
Gustav Klimt's Virgin 1913
Needless to say I highly recommend a visit to the National Gallery in Prague. I believe it to be a very under-rated art destinations in Europe.
AW (Tony) Scott www.awtonyscott.com
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