Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery

The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery opened in 2015 and is now The Courtauld Gallery’s first dedicated space for the display of drawings.

Numbering some 7,000 works and featuring artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Cézanne, The Courtauld’s collection of drawings is one of the most important in the UK. The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery provides a dedicated space at the heart of the Gallery to transform public awareness and enjoyment of this collection.

Highlights

Watercolour and grey ink washes with some drawing with the point of a brush, showing the forest of radnor with the black mountains in the distance — Francis Towne (1739 - 1816) Forest of Radnor, with the Black Mountains in the distance, 1810, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld

Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768), View from Somerset Gardens looking towards London Bridge, 1746 - 1755 (circa), The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld

A still life composition in graphite and watercolour showing a table setting with a display of apples, a bottle and glass to the left and the back of a chair. — Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Apples, bottle and chairback, 1904 - 1906 (circa), The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld

painting of a man with a bandage covering his ear

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