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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.
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...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...
...dining experience, this option gives guests the opportunity to start their evening with welcome drinks on the third floor, in our LVMH Great Room, alongside works by Van Gogh, Monet,...
The Borders 2.09, Paige, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. Paige, aged 17 Vincent Van Gogh’s self portrait was painted following a period of intense emotional and...
...the collection and, focusing on Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait, thinking critically about what objects, clothing and backgrounds in portraits can tell the viewer. In the afternoon, they experimented with Van...
...explored scale and mark-making to approach ways of looking at Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait and consider how they could respond creatively to visual, contextual and cultural sources of inspiration. Playing...
...most famous masterpieces including Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and the most important collection of Cézannes in the UK, as well as works...
...A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), and the most significant collection of works by Cézanne in the UK can now be seen in...
...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...
Agnes-Joanie, Spun Out, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. Agnes-Joanie, aged 17 Digital photography Vincent van Gogh did not title Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Though he describes...
