Friends
AUTUMN WINTER 2011/12 EVENTS programme
Welcome to the Friends of The Courtauld’s programme of events for spring/summer 2012. If you wish to download this programme in PdF form, click here.
If you would like to enjoy these Friends' events and other benefits too, then become
a Friend of The Courtauld (see below for details).
FEBRUARY 2012
Dining Room Stafford House ©
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
18 StAFFORD TERRACE
Guided tour
THURSDAY 2 FEBRUARY 11AM – 12.30PM
The house at 18 Stafford Terrace was built in 1875 and is a remarkably well-preserved Victorian town house with its original interior decoration and contents. Edward Sambourne, the Punch cartoonist, lived here and embellished it according to fashionable aesthetic principles.
Meet at 18 Stafford Terrace, London W8 at 10.45AM
Tickets: Friends £15.00/One Guest £25.00
Ben Nicholson Painting , 1937 ©
The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gakkery, London
Mondrian II Nicholson: In Parallel
Exhibition Preview
WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 3 - 4PM
Exclusive preview and curatorial tour by Dr Barnaby Wright, Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art. This exhibition will be the first to offer a comprehensive account of the parallel artistic paths charted by Mondrian and Nicholson during the 1930s. It will bring together an extraordinary group of paintings and reliefs to show how each artist was driven by a profound belief in the potential of abstract art to attain the highest aesthetic and spiritual power.
Meet in the foyer of The Courtauld Gallery at 2.45PM
This event is now FULLY BOOKED
FRIENDS OF THE COURTAULD
Annual General Meeting
THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE, SEMINAR ROOM 4
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 4.15 – 4.45PM
The Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Allegory of the Power of Eloquence c. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, the Courtauld Gallery, London
HIGHLIGHTS TOUR
THE COURTAULD GALLERY
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 5 – 6PM
We are offering two Highlights Tours of our Masterpieces by Dr Ayla Lepine, Andrew W. Mellon/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld. Afterwards, as part of The Courtauld Late Night opening series, there will be live music with Courtauld experts holding talks on the Mondrian II Nicholson: In Parallel exhibition. Downstairs drinks and nibbles will be available in the cash bar of The Courtauld Gallery Café till 9pm.
Meet in the foyer of The Courtauld Gallery at 4.50PM
Tickets: Friends FREE/One Guest £10.00. Please book one tour only.
MARCH 2012
THE BADA ANTIQUES & FINE ART FAIR
DUKE OF YORK SQUARE
21-27 MARCH
We are delighted to extend a special offer for the Friends to The Bada Antiques and Fine Art Fair. Internationally recognised as this country’s leading art and antiques fair where, for one week, 100 specialists offer quality art and antiques for collectors and first time buyers. The special offer would be admission for two for £10 instead of £15, to include a copy of the BADA Handbook and two re-entry passes for a subsequent visit. We will email all our Friends on how to book tickets with a link. For more information go to www.bada-antiques-fair.co.uk
Dickens House, Bloomsbury,y, London
charles Dickens museum
Guided tour and drinks
WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH 6 – 7.30PM
The Charles Dickens Museum in London holds the world's most important Dickens collection with over 100,000 items including manuscripts, rare editions, personal items, paintings and other visual sources. Professor Robert Patten, scholar in residence, will give us a tour of Dickens’ only surviving London house and we will experience what Dickens’ home would have been like in his time.
Meet at the Dickens Museum, London WC1 at 5.45pm
Tickets: Friends £22.50 / Guests £32.50 payable at the door
APRIL 2012
Wyndham Lewis Self-Portrait ©
The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gakkery, London
picasso and modern british art
Lecture by Richard Cork
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 6.30 – 7.30PM
This new show at Tate Britain explores Picasso’s extensive legacy and influence on British art, how this played a role in the acceptance of modern art in Britain, alongside the fascinating story of Picasso’s lifelong connections to and affection for this country. Due to his trip with the Samuel Courtauld Society to the south of France, Professor Chris Green is no longer able to give this lecture but Richard Cork has kindly agreed to step in. Richard is also a Picasso expert and to boot has personally met Picasso in Cannes in 1965 so his talk will have a personal edge to it. He has promissed to show us a drawing made by Picasso of him! The lecture will be followed by drinks in the foyer.
Not to be missed.
Meet in the Kenneth Clark Theatre, Courtauld Institute from 6pm
Tickets: £5.00 payable at the door
MAY 2012
Chiswick House
chelsea physic garden
Guided tour
FRIDAY 11 MAY 12 NOON – 1.30 PM
Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London in 1673 for its apprentices to study the medicinal qualities of plants. Throughout the 1700s it was one of the most important centres of botany and plant exchange in the world. It is London’s oldest botanic garden and a unique living museum.
Meet at Chelsea Physic Garden, London SW3 at 11.45AM..
Tickets: Friends £17.50/One Guest £25.00
Strawberry
chiswick house and gardens
Guided tour of Chiswick House and Gardens
MONDAY 21 MAY 11AM - 3PM
Courtauld alumna Madeleine Edmead will take us around Chiswick House, a magnificent neo-Palladian villa built by the third Earl of Burlington in 1729, and its beautiful historic gardens. The recently restored gardens are the birthplace of the English Landscape Movement. There will be time for lunch* between both visits.
Meet at Chiswick House, Chiswick W4 at 10.45A
Tickets: Friends £20.00/One Guest £30.00
JUNE 2012
Strawberry Hill
strawberry hill
Guided tour
MONDAY 11 JUNE 10.45AM - 2PM
Private guided tour of Strawberry Hill followed by optional lunch
We are returning to Strawberry Hill and the now restored gardens. Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), son of Sir Robert, Britain's first Prime Minister, built Strawberry Hill to house his vast collection of treasures. The house is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic revival architecture. After the tour there is time for lunch* in the Committee of Taste Café and a wander in the fabulous gardens.
Meet at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham TW1 at 10.45AM
Tickets: Friends £20.00/One Guest £30.00
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Helena Fourment © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
MANTEGNA TO MATISSE: MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE COURTAULD GALLERY
Exhibition preview
THE COURTAULD GALLERY
WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE 3 – 4PM
Exclusive preview and curatorial tour by Dr Stephanie Buck, Curator of Drawings and exhibition curator. This exhibition celebrates the art of drawing and will range from rarely seen drawings from The Courtauld Collection by artists such as Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to masterpieces by Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Matisse.
Meet in the foyer of The Courtauld Gallery at 2.45PM
Tickets: Friends FREE/One Guest £15.00
Ivory Dipttych with scenes from the Childhood and passion of Christ c. 1350 (Paris)
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
HIGHLIGHTS TOUR
THE COURTAULD GALLERY
THURSDAY 28 JUNE 5 – 6PM
One of our regular Highlights Tours of some of our Masterpieces by Dr Ayla Lepine, Andrew W. Mellon/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld. Afterwards, as part of The Courtauld Late Night opening series, there will be live music with Courtauld experts holding talks on the Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery exhibition while downstairs drinks and nibbles will be available in the cash bar of The Courtauld Gallery Café till 9pm.
Meet in the foyer of The Courtauld Gallery at 4.45PM
Tickets: Friends FREE/One Guest* £10
JULY 2012
Stanley Spencer Gallery
stanley spencer gallery
Guided visit and walk
FRIDAY 13 JULY 11AM – 3PM
Carolyn Leder, Courtauld Alumna and Stanley Spencer Gallery Trustee, will give us a guided tour of this gallery and the Spencer’s Earthly Paradise exhibition followed by a walk around the village of Cookham, with time for lunch* in between. The gallery is dedicated to the life and work of Sir Stanley Spencer RA (1891-1959) and was opened in 1962, three years after the artist's death. It stands as a lasting memorial to Spencer and contains a wide array of his paintings and drawings.
Meet at Stanley Spencer Gallery, Berkshire SL6 at 10.55AM
Tickets: Friends £15.00/One Guest £25.00
SEPTEMBER 2012
Dining Room, Buckingham Palace
BUCKINGHAM PALACE STATE ROOMS AND GARDENS
Guided visit
SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 11AM – 1PM
We are offering an audio guided tour of The State Rooms of Buckingham Palace and Gardens. The State Rooms are lavishly furnished with treasures like paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin and Canaletto; sculpture by Canova; exquisite examples of Sèvres porcelain. The gardens are home to thirty different species of birds and more than 350 different wild flowers, some extremely rare. The visit is followed by an optional lunch* in the Garden Café.
Meet at Buckingham Palace, London SW1 at 10.45AM.
Tickets: Friends £25.00/One Guest £35.00
*Lunch is entirely optional and the cost of it is not included in the ticket price.
TO BOOK FOR A FRIENDS' EVENT
By any of the following:
- Phone Pia Rainey, Friends Manager, on 020 7848 1448 and pay by credit card on Monday to Thursday
- Download and complete The Friends Events Booking Form [PDF] and send it in with your payment.
TO BECOME A FRIEND or donate a gift membership OF THE COURTAULD
- Join online
- Download the application form [PDF]
- Phone Pia Rainey, Friends Manager on 020 7848 1448
- Email Pia Rainey, Friends Manager at pia.rainey@courtauld.ac.uk
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