Deborah Swallow, Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art, requests the pleasure of your company at the
Press View for
Mantegna to Matisse
Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery
Exhibition dates: 14 June to 9 September 2012
at The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
on Wednesday 13 June from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm
The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collections of drawings in Britain. Organised in collaboration with The Frick Collection in New York, this exhibition presents a magnificent selection of some sixty of its finest works. It offers a rare opportunity to consider the art of drawing in the hands of its greatest masters, including Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Cézanne and Matisse. The Courtauld last displayed a comparable selection of its masterpieces more than twenty years ago and this exhibition will bring the collection to new audiences nationally and internationally.
There will be a tour at 12 noon by Stephanie Buck, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery, and Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection.
The exhibition is organised by The Courtauld Gallery, London, and The Frick Collection, New York, where it will be shown from 2 October 2012 to 27 January 2013.
