Exhibitions

Future Exhibitions

The courtauld collects: 20 years of acquisitions

17 June – 19 September 2010

This display will explore some of the exceptional new additions to The Courtauld’s collection since it moved to Somerset House twenty years ago. Highlights include works ranging from Turner and Constable to Ingres, Degas and Seurat. The show will also unveil one the most important new acquisitions, Joshua Reynolds's late masterpiece Cupid and Psyche.  

 

The Courtauld Gallery is sometimes described as a ‘collection of collections’ and has grown historically through the generosity of private individuals who have endowed it with the remarkable collections which they formed.

 

This grand tradition of philanthropy, initiated at the Gallery by Samuel Courtauld in the 1930s, still survives and continues to extend and enhance The Courtauld Gallery’s world-famous collections.

 

The display will be an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy the achievements of the past twenty years and to look forward to the future development of the collections.      

 

Supported by the Finnis Scott Foundation  

CÉZanne's Card Players

21 October 2010 – January 2011

Paul Cézanne’s famous series of paintings of peasants playing cards has long been considered among his most important and powerful works.  

This landmark exhibition will be the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of Cézanne’s closely related portraits of Provençal peasants and rarely seen preparatory oil sketches and drawings.

The Courtauld Gallery’s two masterpieces from this series, The Card Players and Man with a Pipe, will be joined by exceptional loans to offer a visual feast of some of Cézanne’s finest paintings.