17 September 2015 – 17 January 2016
Don't miss this exploration of Bridget Riley's early breakthrough encounter with Georges Seurat’s Bridge at Courbevoie, a highlight of the collection.
In 1959, Riley made a version of Seurat's iconic work, in order to gain an insight into the Post-Impressionist painter's thought-process and approach. This defining experience helped her develop a new understanding of colour and perception, and led her to create some of the most radical works of the past fifty years.
This seminal moment of artistic discovery is the spring board for this special display that will bring Riley's copy together with the original for the first time. It will also chart its influence on Riley's artistic career, with a selection of seven key works exploring how Riley continued to learn from Seurat over the following decades.
"A rare insight into an artists mind" The Telegraph
★★★★★ The Guardian
"This is an astonishing exhibition" Apollo Magazine
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Panorama - The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery
Until 10 January 2016
Over the centuries, artists have used lofty, sometimes imagined viewpoints to create panoramas: dramatic, sweeping overviews of the world. Such panoramas can express a range of ideas, from civic pride and political power to romantic notions of the sublime and the awe-inspiring power of nature.
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Book Ahead: Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings
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Opens 15 October 2015 - 17 January 2016
This exhibition explores a remarkable series of paintings by Peter Lanyon, one of Britain's most important and original Post-War artists.
Lanyon (1918-64) created a new vision of landscape painting for the modern era. During the 1950s he produced near-abstract works that were deeply rooted in the tough coastal landscape of his native West Cornwall. Fuelled by a desire to experience the landscape as fully as possible he took up gliding at the end of the decade in order to extend and transform his art.
This is the first exhibition entirely devoted to Lanyon's gliding paintings and will offer a rich account of this radical body of work.
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October Talks and Tours
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Wednesday 4 November
17.00 – 17.45
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Every Sunday
15.00 - 15.45
Explore highlights from the latest exhibition, or works from the collection, as they are examined by postgraduate students from The Courtauld Institute of Art
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Every Monday and Friday
13.15 - 13.30
Lunchtime talks are delivered by students and researchers at The Courtauld on works in the collection. The talks take place in front of the objects in the gallery and are informal and interesting ways of looking closely at the works in our collection.
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The Courtauld's Annual Book Sale
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5 - 9 October 2015
On the 5 October The much loved annual Courtauld book sale returns once again this autumn, offering thousands of books at amazing prices with all proceeds (over £100,000 since its inception) going to support student travel grants.
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Discover how our latest Drawings Gallery display came about
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Peter Lanyon may have been one of the first artists to draw inspiration for his paintings from his experiences of flying high above the earth in a glider. This display highlights some of the ways in which artists the explored tradition of panoramic landscape before the age of powered flight to express a range of different ideas, from political and military might to romantic notions of the sublime.
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Greetings From The New Illuminating Objects Intern
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Find out about our new Gallery Illuminating Objects Intern, Devon Abts.
Devon is a PhD student in theology and the arts atKing’s College London. Her doctoral project is an interdisciplinary study of theology and literature centered on the poetry of the nineteenth-century Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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The Courtauld Prints And Drawings Study Room Presents.....
Showcase Week: Land To Shore
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The Prints and Drawings Study Room will present its third Showcase Week from 26-30 October 2015, complementing our autumn major exhibition Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings and Drawing Gallery display Panorama.
The theme Land to Shore will focus on the ways different artists explore the relationship between land and sea, and the significance of this borderline, as an area of recreation, defense and livelihood.
Each day a selected work will be presented by postgraduate Print Room Assistants in the Prints and Drawings Study Room.
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Visitors are invited to drop in to see and hear about the selected work each day of Showcase Week between 13.30 and 17.00.
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