Exhibition Tickets August - September | Facing Modernity: Degas to Picasso from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Artworks from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 

23 May - 20 September 2026

Open daily with hourly timed-entry tickets from 10am-4pm, and until 7pm on Fridays

Spanning nearly a century of artistic innovation, Facing Modernity: Degas to Picasso brings together 37 exceptional paintings and sculptures from the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki never before shown in Australia that capture the radical shifts in art from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Audiences will embark on a journey tracing the major art movements of the modern era, from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and post-war abstraction, through works from icons of the age, including Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Barbara Hepworth, and Edgar Degas.

This exhibition at SAM is an Australian exclusive.

Paul Cezanne, La route (Le mur d'enceinte)/The Road (The Old Wall), 1875-1876, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Julian and Josie Robertson through \the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, 2023

André Derain, Paysage à l'Estaque (Estaque Landscape), 1906, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Julian and Josie Robertson through the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, 2023

Henri Matisse, Espagnole (Buste)/The Spanish Woman, 1922, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Julian and Josie Robertson through the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, 2023