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.
We care for an outstanding art collection, advance the study and conservation of visual art, and share it through acclaimed exhibitions. Your support helps us inspire new ways of seeing and thinking about art.
...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 Bar at the...
...Van Gogh, and others. The Blavatnik Fine Rooms, spanning the entire second floor, provide a beautiful setting for works from the Renaissance to the 18th century. New rooms devoted to...
...works in the light of paintings by earlier artists in The Courtauld’s collection that are important for him, such as those by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh....
...masterpieces such as Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), and the most significant collection of works by Paul Cézanne in...
...Pissarro and Van Gogh. The exhibition will explore how Doig recasts and reinvents traditions and practices of painting to create his own highly distinctive works. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, Head...
...Monet, Van Gogh, and others. The Blavatnik Fine Rooms, spanning the entire second floor, provide a beautiful setting for works from the Renaissance to the 18th century. New rooms devoted...
...well as Van Gogh’s mark-making techniques. I feel as though in the current age; people want to show only the best parts of themselves. With mental health in teens becoming...
Ears, Maya, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. Maya, aged 17 This mixed-media portrait is a personal response to Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. It is...
...work reflects Jones’ longstanding engagement with the contrasting colours and prominent marks of the landscape paintings of Vincent van Gogh, whose Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) is housed in the...
...of paintings by Van Gogh of the hospital where he stayed in Arles. This is the first time ever that the collection has been shown outside Switzerland. Abstract Erotic: Louise...
...Bataille had also concerned himself in his study Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh, (La Mutilation sacrificelle et l’oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh), published in...
...of participants while viewing masterpieces by world-renowned artists including Manet, Van Gogh and Gauguin at the Courtauld Gallery. The research found that art activates the immune, endocrine (hormone), and autonomic...
