The National Gallery of Ireland is marking the upcoming EU enlargement by launching a major new exhibition featuring paintings from the national collections of the ten accession states.
Some 60 works broadly covering the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries will be on display in the gallery's New Millenium wing until Sunday 30th May
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Mr John O'Donoghue launched the exhibition, entitled New Frontiers, earlier today as part of Ireland's 2004 Presidency of the EU.
The paintings, which came from Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, are considered to best represent their country's heritage and include an extensive range of styles influenced by late-nineteenth century French and German works to national interpretations of the avant-garde.