Through numerous loans from our Collection, travelling exhibitions and important international partnerships, Tate reaches audiences all over the world.
Among the 12 Tate exhibitions which travelled, four originated by Tate Modern and were seen by over 600,000 people. Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris was presented in Paris and Washington, DC and Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction went to Basel. Six exhibitions originated by Tate Britain travelled including Constable: The Great Landscapes and Howard Hodgkin. This Was Tomorrow, the Tate Britain exhibition dedicated to the art of the 1960s, went to the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand.
Exhibitions from Tate Liverpool also toured during this period. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky visited Frankfurt and Vienna and Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me travelled from Liverpool to Naples.
Our loans programme is a vital way of making our Collection accessible. Last year, while we installed 1,300 Tate works in displays and exhibitions in our galleries, we also organised and managed the loan of 668 works to a record 256 venues, half of which were overseas. Of those 668 works, 309 were paintings or reliefs; 219 works on paper; 133 sculptures or installations and seven time-based media works.
We lent pieces to three venues in China and contributed works by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood to an exhibition in Tokyo. Eight paintings went to Moscow for the exhibition Whistler and Russia organised by the British Council for the State Tretyakov Gallery, and works by JMW Turner were lent to exhibitions in the USA, Switzerland, France and Italy. The latter included the display of Turner's The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth, 8 October 1844 c1844–5, at the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, to represent the UK on the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.
