Works from the Okatsuka Collection; Ragnar Thomas, c. 1988: A Selection of Drawings by the Rosebud Group

• Jarrod Zlatic

A Munch in Brunswick. This might suggest an invitation for brunch at Walrus, lunch at Tochi Deli, or dinner followed by drinks at The Alderman, Flippy’s or wherever else. Though presently it could refer to either of two small, rather languid, paintings allegedly by Edvard Munch currently on show at TCB. In fact, I almost missed them; when I visited on a Saturday afternoon the volunteers were themselves locking up and leaving early for a late lunch. They form part of a small group of works, supposedly on loan from the Okatsuka Collection and the Hiroshima Museum of Art in Japan, put together by Miki Okatsuka and Amy Stuart. Not only are there two Munchs, but two Kazimir Malevichs (a painting and a small drawing, both from his Suprematist period), a delicate, dreamy pen portrait by Tsuguharu Foujita (the Japanese member of the School of Paris), as well as a gouache still life study from Sydney modernist, Grace Cossington Smith.