Wyndham Lewis
dal 13/10/2004 al 13/2/2005
Segnalato da
13/10/2004
Wyndham Lewis
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The bone beneath the pulp. Drawings. This exhibition will feature over 50 works by one of the key avant-garde figures in British art of the early 20th century. The drawings span Lewis's career, and are on long-term loan from the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust and its Trustees. This is the first exhibition to consider Lewis's drawing as a distinct contribution to his art, despite the importance he attributed to the role of draughtsmanship in his own and other artists' work.
‘The bone beneath the pulp’: Drawings by Wyndham Lewis
14 October 2004 to 13 February 2005
This exhibition will feature over 50 works by one of the key avant-garde figures in British art of the early 20th century. The drawings span Lewis’s career, and are on long-term loan from the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust and its Trustees. This is the first exhibition to consider Lewis’s drawing as a distinct contribution to his art, despite the importance he attributed to the role of draughtsmanship in his own and other artists’ work.
Described by the poet and critic T. S. Eliot as ‘the most fascinating personality of our time’, Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), artist, novelist and cultural critic, is renowned as the leader of the Vorticist group in the years immediately before the First World War. The abstract works he produced early in his career were distinctive for their formal experimentation and acerbic wit, yet his diverse and experimental oeuvre also encompassed figure studies, portraits and works of imaginative fantasy.
The exhibition traces his drawing from youthful figure studies such as Two nudes of 1903, heavily indebted to Augustus John and the Slade School tradition, to the portraits of the 1920s and '30s, outstanding in the clarity of their line, through to the surreal abstractions and dreamscapes of the 1930s and '40s. Charting his move to Canada and the United States during the Second World War and his subsequent return to London in 1945, the exhibition ends with one of Lewis’s last works, Red figures carrying babies and visiting graves, completed in 1951 just before he lost his sight.
In the image: Figure (Spanish woman) 1912.
Opening hours:
Daily 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Last admission 5.15 pm
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Manet Face to Face:
The Luncheon and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
14 October 2004 to 9 January 2005
The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery is delighted to announce the loan from the Neue Pinakothek in Munich of Edouard Manet’s celebrated painting The Luncheon (Le Déjeuner), 1868. This powerful work will be installed with Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-2, owned by The Samuel Courtauld Trust, in a special display generously supported by The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Foundation. The two paintings will be displayed alone, allowing visitors to experience the full impact of the two works in addition to being able consider the various questions relating to composition, theme and original context.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays contributed by the Courtauld and the Neue Pinakothek. Following this installation in London, both paintings will travel to Munich where they will be on display from 20 January to 10 April 2005.
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