The Courtauld Gallery

Events at The Courtauld Gallery

• CEZanne's Card Players

  Exhibition

  21 Oct 2010 to 31 Jan 2011

  Paul Cézanne's famous series of paintings of peasants playing cards has long been considered among his most important and powerful works.

• Cezanne's Card Players

  Exhibition

  21 Oct 2010 to 31 Jan 2011

  Paul Cezanne's famous series of paintings of peasants playing cards has long been considered among his most important and powerful works. This landmark exhibition is the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of Cezanne's closely related portraits of peasants and rarely seen preparatory oil sketches and drawings.

• The Collection: Paintings 18th Century

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The 18th Century collection features examples of English portraiture, including Gainsboroughs portrait of his wife, and the only full-length portrait by Goya in Britain. One area of the gallery is devoted to a collection of oil sketches one the Venetian painter, Tiepolo.

• The Collection: Paintings 20th Century

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Courtauld is home to one of the most prominent displays in Britain of paintings by the Fauves (or 'Wild Beasts'), including significant works by Matisse, Derain and Dufy. This is complemented by German Expressionist paintings with an extensive collection of Kandinsky's works. A group of Kokoschka works includes the artist's large-scale ceiling painting, 'The Prometheus Triptych'. The collection of modern British art extends well into the 20th Century, with works by Nicholson, Sutherland and Hitches, among others.