plans to raise a total of \u00a3750m for the development of a new wing to house such works<\/a>. The new building is expected to open in the early 2030s on the site of St Vincent House to the north of the Sainsbury Wing.<\/p>\nThe move signals the National Gallery\u2019s intent to start collecting paintings from across the entire 20th century. Until now its cut-off date has been around 1900, although since the 1990s it has occasionally acquired early 20th-century works. Gabriele Finaldi, the National Gallery director, has said that the new acquisition strategy will be enacted in \u201ccollaboration\u201d with Tate, which has long collected international art from around 1900.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of his remit, Elliott will develop the collection of post-1900 painting through acquisitions, institutional exchanges\u2014particularly with Tate\u2014gifts and long-term loans,\u201d a gallery statement says. He will take up the position at the end of March.<\/p>\n
During his tenure at the National Galleries of Scotland, Elliott acquired works by artists such as Jenny Saville, Wangechi Mutu, Damien Hirst and Peter Doig. He also assisted with the acquisition of two major collections of Surrealist art in 1995 (the Keiller Bequest and the Penrose Collection purchase).<\/p>\n
Elliott says in a statement: \u201cI am very conscious of the need to collect the very best: modern paintings that can hold their own in a gallery full of Rembrandts and Titians. It\u2019s an exciting challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Gallery in London is planting its flag on 20th-century art with the announcement of Patrick Elliott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[29707,41087,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,10748,10345,135102,14361,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-appointments","tag-appointments-departures","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-museums","tag-museums-heritage","tag-national-galleries-of-scotland","tag-national-gallery","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}