Bruegel To Freud - Prints From The Courtauld Gallery

Dr Rachel Sloan, the Curator of the Bruegel to Freud - Prints from the Courtauld Gallery - the summertime showcase exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery is giving a verbalize this evening which I'm non going to locomote able to attend. However hither she is introducing the exhibition which spans 500 years of printmaking too including industrial plant yesteryear Mantegna, Bruegel, Canaletto, Picasso, Matisse too Freud.

I've got to position this on my listing of exhibitions I've non notwithstanding got to meet due to writing/proofing/finishing the book.  (Today was final, finally proofs too it's straight off going to print)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

The Jockey, 1899

Lithograph, 51.6 x 36.3 cm

The Courtauld Gallery, London

The Courtauld Gallery houses one of the most meaning collections of industrial plant on paper inwards Britain. It includes industrial plant from the Renaissance to the 21st century:

• approximately 7,000 drawings too watercolours 
• 20,000 prints.

For those who are interested inwards industrial plant on paper, the collection is besides available to persuasion inwards the Drawings & Prints Study Room - yesteryear appointment.

• These are Drawing Highlights. The industrial plant cannot locomote on permanent exhibition due to their sensitivity to light. The narrative categorises them yesteryear century. Click each icon to meet it to a greater extent than clearly too notice out to a greater extent than most it on its ain private spider web page 
• These are the Print Highlights. The collection offers the chance to budding fine art historians too those interested inwards printmaking to written report a broad make of printmaking processes. 
• This link provides data most who The Collectors are
• Visit the Study Room - between 1.30pm too 4pm on Wednesdays the Study Room is opened upwards on a drop-in reason too no solar daytime of the month is needed

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