Future Exhibitions

 

Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel

16 February – 20 May 2012

Ben Nicholson Painting 1937 © The Courtauld Gallery, London

The story of the creative relationship between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson is largely untold yet, during the 1930s, their work was profoundly connected.

 

Their friendship culminated with Mondrian moving to London in 1938, at Nicholson’s invitation, where the two worked in neighbouring Hampstead studios.

 

This exhibition brings 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.

 

Find out more about Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel

 

 

MANTEGNA TO MATISSE: MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE COURTAULD GALLERY

14 June - 9 September 2012

Peter Paul Rubens, Helena Fourment, c 1630 © The Courtauld Gallery, London This exhibition celebrates the art of drawing and offers a unique opportunity to enjoy some of the very greatest works from The Courtauld’s famous collection. 

 

The selection ranges from Renaissance masterpieces by artists such as Mantegna, Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to works by Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Matisse. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PETER LELY

11 October 2012 - 13 January 2013

Peter Lely, Concert (detail), c 1640 - 1649 © The Courtauld Gallery, London Peter Lely was England's leading painter from the period of the Civil War to the reign of Charles II.

 

Known principally for this portraits of court beauties, he devoted his early career to ambitious paintings of figures in idyllic landscape, their lyrical character contrasting with the political turmoil of the ties. this exhibition reunites these intriguing and beautiful works to provide fresh insight into a remarkable period in British Art.