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Description: | The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery has one of the most important collections in Britain, including world-famous Old Master, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and an outstanding prints and drawings collection featuring works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne and Turner. The collection includes around 530 paintings, 7,000 drawings and 20,000 prints as well as significant holdings of medieval, Renaissance and modern sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, furniture and textiles. The galleryÃ's unique and intimate atmosphere reflects its origins as a 'collection of collections', largely formed through a series of major gifts and bequests made by some of the leading collectors of the 19th and 20th centuries. These include Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), Roger Fry (1866-1934), Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-88), Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947) and Count Antoine Seilern (1901-78). Details of each collection are listed separately
More than 100 important works on long-term loan from several private collections since 2002. In their range and quality these broaden the scope of the existing collections, highlighting in particular the creative continuities between Post-Impressionist painters such as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, and the generation of Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. There is an outstanding group of Fauve paintings which includes DerainÃ's The Dance and MatisseÃ's The Red Beach, as well as works by Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin and Albert Marquet. The German works include a number of important paintings by the group of Munich-based artists known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). There is also sculpture by some of the principal figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Rodin, Maillol, Matisse, Archipenko and Laurens and 11 bronzes and a selection of works on paper by Edgar Degas, one of which is a study for the famous Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer which was exhibited at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Somerset House
Strand
London Great Britain (UK),
WC2R 0RN | FAX: | 020 7848 2589 | Telephone: | 020 7848 2526 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5348 | Go to resource |
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