The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
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...well as through loans and partnerships. The Gallery is most famous for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A...
...for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It showcases these alongside an internationally renowned...
To prepare for this exhibition we studied work by Claude Monet, Eduarde Manet, Richard Long, Linda Karshan, Larissa Fassler, Chris Ofili, and Abigail Reynolds. We began to question how they...
...Post-Impressionist paintings, with such iconic works as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Please note the permanent collection on display within the Gallery...
...representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), Manet’s groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne. A further...
...Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It showcases these alongside an internationally renowned collection of works from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through to the present day....
...iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from The Courtauld’s collection such as Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Renoir’s La Loge, and Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. During the 1920s,...
...to provide an aesthetic contrast to the white subject of the painting (for example, Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 1863). She also highlights the long tradition of exoticising and eroticising women of...
...as well as through loans and partnerships. The Gallery is most famous for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s...
...spectacular, newly restored LVMH Great Room, London’s oldest purpose-built exhibition space which is now home to The Courtauld’s world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art by artists including Cézanne, Manet,...
...and Manet in gorgeously redesigned exhibition rooms. This is one of the world’s best collections of Impressionism, and it’s never looked better. If you want to get excited about the...
...Space Presented in the Project Space, this display showcases fifteen works from The Courtauld’s Prints and Drawings collection, including works by Édouard Manet and John Frederick Lewis, some shown for...
