Fri 30 Jun, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

VIP Tour: Masterpiece London 2017

Offering for sale museum-quality works with superb provenance from over 150 leading galleries worldwide, Masterpiece provides a unique opportunity to buy the best pieces available across multiple disciplines in the current market. Showcasing works that span over 6000 years of art history, from antiquity to the present day, the Fair…

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Fri 16 Jun, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Private Tour: Queens House

Inigo Jones’s architectural masterpiece has reopened after major restoration, with 22 spectacular rooms filled with great art representing 400 years. An ambitious new work by Turner Prize-winner Richard Wright is revealed on the Great Hall ceiling, and the iconic Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is now on display. Christine…

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Mon 22 May, 2017 Associates, Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Samuel Courtauld Society Visit: Winchester

Dr Tom Nickson, Associate Dean; Lecturer in Medieval Art, will guide a tour of Winchester Cathedral and the Hospital of St Cross. In the afternoon we are lucky enough to have access to the recently opened Winchester College treasury, which houses an outstanding collection of art and archaeology of the…

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Thu 30 Mar, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Curatorial Tour: Reading Drawings

This display examines the intriguing variety of inscriptions that can be found on drawings, from artists’ signatures to casual notes and records of ownership. Featuring works by Canaletto, Corot, Signac and others this selection reveals how such annotations can shed light on the purpose, history and use of drawings. Join…

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Fri 24 Mar, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Curatorial Introduction: Vanessa Bell (1879 – 1961)

Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879 – 1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British Art, inventing a new language of visual expression. A radical innovator in the use of abstraction, colour and form, Bell will be presented for a…

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Tue 14 Mar, 2017 Associates, Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Curatorial Tour: Bloomsbury Art and Design

The Courtauld holds one of the most extensive collections of paintings, design drawings, ceramics and furniture by artists from the Bloomsbury Group. Led by Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, these artists brought a new radical language of art to Edwardian Britain. Producing paintings and decorative arts, the group…

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Thu 16 Feb, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Van Gogh’s Ear: The True Story

On 23 December 1888 in Arles, Van Gogh sat in front of his mirror, took hold of a cut-throat razor used for shaving and sliced into his own ear. It was an act of astonishing savagery and has come to define the man, the art and the myth. Join Bernadette…

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Tue 1 Nov, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Curatorial Introduction: Beyond Caravaggio

The dramatic lighting and intense naturalism of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s paintings inspired a multitude of artists during his lifetime and in the decades immediately following his untimely death. Beyond Caravaggio is the first major UK exhibition to explore the impact of Caravaggio’s work both on the art of his…

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Tue 31 Jan, 2017 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Artist Studio Visit: Linda Karshan

Guided by what she calls her “inner choreography,” Linda Karshan makes spare, monochromatic, abstract prints and drawings that serve as direct reflections of the process of their making. Although she began her career producing expressive compositions, in 1994 she developed a performancebased method for making work, in which every mark…

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Fri 9 Dec, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Courtauld Alumnus Tour: Portrait of the Artist

The first exhibition to focus on images of artists from within the Royal Collection, Portrait of the Artist not only show-cases self-portraits by worldrenowned artists including Rembrandt, Rubens, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, but also features images of artists by their friends, relatives and pupils, including the most…

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Tue 29 Nov, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Private Tour: Flaming June: A Masterpiece Comes Home

Flaming June: A Masterpiece Comes Home is a landmark exhibition for Leighton House Museum, returning Leighton’s most famous and celebrated work to the artist’s house from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830- 1896), was one of the pre-eminent artists of his day. President…

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Tue 13 Sep, 2016 Associates, Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Tour: Tate Modern

Switch House, the new extension at Tate Modern marks one of the most important changes to a cultural institution in the past decade. This new addition will allow for the display of a greater variety of artworks by more artists from around the world, presenting an increasingly international view of…

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Fri 1 Jul, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle

VIP Tour and Breakfast: Masterpiece London 2016

Masterpiece London, the leading international cross collecting fair for art, antiques and design, has become a must-attend event at the heart of the capital’s busy summer art and auction season. Offering for sale museum quality works of superb provenance from over 150 leading galleries worldwide, Masterpiece provides a unique opportunity to buy the best pieces available across multiple disciplines in the…

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Tue 7 Jun, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle

Courtauld Expert Tour: Russia and the Arts: The Age of To...

This exhibition will be the most important display of Russian portraits ever to take place at a British museum, and will be part of an unprecedented cultural exchange with Moscow. Celebrated portraits of key figures from a golden age of the arts in Russia (1867- 1914) will be seen together in Britain for the first time. They come…

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Wed 18 May, 2016 Associates, Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle

Courtauld Alumna Lecture: Dead Unicorns, Vanquished Venet...

Courtauld Alumna, Dr Frederica Law-Turner (PhD History of Art 1999) has been awarded the J. Clawson Mills Fellowship in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to investigate the provenance and meaning of The Cloisters’ Unicorn Tapestries. This group of seven hangings, ostensibly depicting the hunt and killing of a unicorn in an idealised…

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Tue 12 Apr, 2016 Associates, Director's Circle, Friends, Patrons' Circle

Friends Event: Lecture on the Conservation of Wall Painting

You are warmly invited to a lecture by Professor David Park, Head of the Conservation of Wall Painting Department at The Courtauld. The Courtauld is one of the leading centres in the world for education and research in wall painting conservation. Over the last 30 years, the Conservation of Wall…

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Wed 13 Apr, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Curator’s Introduction: Botticelli Reimagined

Coinciding with the Courtauld Gallery’s major exhibition Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting its own innovative exhibition which will explore the variety of ways artists and designers from the Pre-Raphaelites to the present have responded to the artistic legacy of Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510). Botticelli is now celebrated as one of…

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Tue 5 Apr, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Private Tour and Drinks Reception: Ordovas Gallery

Pilar Ordovas founded her gallery after 13 years at Christie’s, where she was International Director and Deputy Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary Art in Europe, and two years as a Director of Gagosian Gallery in London. Ordovas stages three museum-quality exhibitions a year; scholarly in tone, these shows bring focus to historical works as well as modern masters and often present…

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Fri 18 Mar, 2016 Director's Circle, Patrons' Circle

Curator’s Introduction and Breakfast: Painting the Modern...

Using the work of Monet as a starting point, this landmark exhibition examines the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s. Monet, arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, once said he owed his painting “to flowers”. But Monet was far from alone in…

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Thu 17 Mar, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle

Director’s Breakfast: Botticelli and Treasures from the H...

Professor Deborah Swallow, Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art, warmly invites Director’s Circle and Patrons’ Circle members to a seated breakfast in the surroundings of the beautiful Courtauld Gallery. This will be followed by a curatorial tour of our new major exhibition Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection, led by Dr Barnaby Wright, Daniel Katz Curator…

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Sat 12 Mar, 2016 - Fri 12 Feb, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

The Courtauld at Maastricht: Private Highlights Tour and ...

TEFAF Maastricht is universally regarded as the world’s leading art fair, setting the standard for excellence in the art market. The fair is an unmissable event for collectors and museum representatives. Presenting 275 of the world’s leading galleries from 20 countries, TEFAF Maastricht is a continuously evolving showcase for the…

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Wed 17 Feb, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Director’s Preview: Botticelli and Treasures from the Ham...

  Professor Deborah Swallow, Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art, invites Director’s Circle and Patrons’ Circle members to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection. This major exhibition features no less than thirty of Botticelli’s exquisite drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy…

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Sat 6 Feb, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Curatorial Tour: David Jones: Vision and Memory

David Jones (1895 – 1974) was a painter, engraver, poet and maker of inscriptions. A lyrical draughtsman, he responded with delight to the visual world, yet his vision was informed by memory reaching back into the depths of time and history. This major exhibition, taking place during the centenary of the…

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Wed 9 Mar, 2016 Associates, Director's Circle, Friends, Patrons' Circle

Friends Event: Bruegel in Black & White: Three Grisa...

Despite his status as the most important Netherlandish painter of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569) remains an elusive artist: fewer than forty paintings are attributed to him. This focused exhibition brings together for the first time Bruegel’s only three surviving grisaille paintings: The Courtauld’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, The…

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Wed 3 Feb, 2016 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Curatorial Tour and Drinks Reception: Bruegel in Black an...

Director’s Circle and Patrons’ Circle members are invited to an evening reception to celebrate the opening of the new display Bruegel in Black and White: Three Grisailles Reunited, with an introductory talk by Dr Karen Serres, Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings. This focused exhibition brings together for the first time Bruegel’s…

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Wed 17 Feb, 2016 Associates, Director's Circle, Friends, Patrons' Circle

Friends Event: Botticelli and Treasures from The Hamilton...

This major exhibition features no less than thirty of Botticelli’s exquisite drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy alongside a selection of outstanding Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These works were all sensationally sold to Berlin in 1882 by the 12th Duke of Hamilton. Dated to around 1480-95 and drawn on vellum, Botticelli’s Dante…

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Wed 16 Dec, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Courtauld Spotlight Tour: Gallery One

Director’s Circle and Patrons’ Circle members are invited to join us for a festive get together, as the Courtauld’s Professor Joanna Cannon leads a tour of Gallery One, focusing on Italian paintings before 1400, as well as some appropriately Christmas themed images.

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Fri 11 Dec, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Private Breakfast View: Ai Weiwei

Ai became widely known in Britain after his sunflower seeds installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2010 but this will be the first major institutional survey of his work ever held in the UK and it will bridge over two decades of his extraordinary career. With typical boldness, the…

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Thu 10 Dec, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Private Collection tour: Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank’s Art Collection in London consists of over 4,000 contemporary works on paper, as well as major paintings and sculptures in its reception area by artists such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg and Keith Tyson. The tour will concentrate on works displayed in the reception and 50…

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Thu 3 Dec, 2015 Associates, Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Exhibition Tour: Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto

Head of Exhibitions, Agnes Valencak, introduces the exhibition which features a hundred drawings from the Uffizi, Florence, the Ashmolean and Christ Church, Oxford. Drawing in Venice is a ground-breaking exhibition based on new research. Venetian art has long been associated with brilliant colours and free brushwork, but drawing has been…

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Fri 13 Nov, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Breakfast and Expert Tour: Sotheby’s Modern British Sale

Director’s Circle members, Sotheby’s, kindly invite the Samuel Courtauld Society to attend a special breakfast view of their Modern British sale. As artists from the Modern British period are elevated to new international audiences, Sotheby’s have seen continued impressive results for works by Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Patrick Heron…

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Fri 6 Nov, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Breakfast and Private Exhibition Tour: Goya: The Portraits

Letizia Treves, curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings from 1600-1800 and co-curator of Goya: The Portraits, will lead a tour of the new exhibition. This landmark exhibition – the first ever focusing solely on Goya’s portraits – will bring together more than 50 of his most outstanding portraits from around…

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Thu 1 Oct, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Private Tour: The Waddesdon Collection at the British Museum

An introduction by curator Dora Thornton and private view of the new Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Rothschild Foundation. The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of nearly 300 objects, left to the Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild…

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Wed 16 Sep, 2015 Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Drinks Reception and Curatorial Tour: Bridget Riley: Lea...

In 1959 Bridget Riley painted a copy of George Seurat’s Bridge at Courbevoie, one of the highlights of the Courtauld Gallery. The lessons she took from Seurat emboldened her to strike out and over the following years she produced the first major abstract paintings based upon repeated geometric patterns for…

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Tue 8 Sep, 2015 Associates, Director's Circle, Membership, Patrons' Circle, Samuel Courtauld Society

Private Tour: Guildhall Art Gallery

Following the recent re-hang, Sonia Solicari, Head of the Guildhall Gallery, introduces the new layout and discusses the impact this has had. This will be followed by a presentation from Courtauld Alumna Dr Ayla Lepine, (PHD 2011) who will focus on the connections between Victorian artists, ideas, and the histories…

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