Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA (b. 1951)
Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor and printmaker.
Born in Portsmouth and trained at the Slade and Chelsea Schools of Art in London, Le Brun first appeared in several group exhibitions, such as the influential Zeitgeist exhibition at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, and from 1980 onwards, in many solo exhibitions in Britain, Europe and America. He was a prizewinner at the John Moores Liverpool exhibitions in 1978 and 1980 and worked in Berlin during 1987-88 as guest of the DAAD artist’s programme.
Between 1990 and 2003 he served as a trustee of the Tate and subsequently of the National Gallery, a period which saw his involvement in the radical developments of Tate at Bankside, Liverpool and St. Ives as well as the masterplan and re-development of the east wing of the National Gallery.
In recent years he has been a trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Royal (formerly Prince’s) Drawing School, which he helped to establish in 2000. In the same year he was elected Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy.
At a time when artists frequently use traditional modes or quotations in a spirit of irony, the repertoire of motifs with which his work is especially associated makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and Symbolism. His paintings ask us to attend not only to the compelling imagery he employs, but also to the poetic and structural processes through which it is made visible.
He was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He was the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds and the youngest to be elected since Lord Leighton in 1878. He stepped down from being President on 10th December 2019.
He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours.
Profile
Engraver
Born: 1951 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 12 December 1996
President from: 2011 - 2019
Honorary officer: Eranda Professor of Drawing 2000 - 2002
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking
Works by Sir Christopher Le Brun in the RA Collection
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
Siegfried and Fafner, LXIII
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
Brünnhilde, LXV
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Fafner, LXII
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
Brünnhilde III, LXVII
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Brünnhilde II, LXVI
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The Rainbow Bridge, LX
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The Valkyrie, LXIV
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
Siegfried, LXI
Photogravure with etching, aquatint, burnishing and scraping
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
No. 1, 2004-2005
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No. 50, 2004-2005
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No. 49, 2004-2005
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No. 48, 2004-2005
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No. 47, 2004-2005
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No. 46, 2004-2005
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No. 45, 2004-2005
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Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA
Life drawing of a female figure viewed from the side
Pencil on wove paper
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Life drawing of a female nude viewed from the back
Pencil on paper
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Sketch of a girl resting her chin on her hands
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Life drawing of a reclining female figure
Charcoal on wove paper
Works associated with Sir Christopher Le Brun in the RA Collection
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Gallery
Christopher Le Brun PRA, Neither White, nor Warm, nor Cold, 2013.
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The Great Tradition
RA Collection Gallery
From 19 May
Does great art begin with studying nature, or studying the great art of the past? Decide for yourself in this new gallery curated by Christopher le Brun PPRA, bringing together highlights from the RA Collection.
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Selected CV
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Recent solo exhibitions
2017 Now Turn the Page, Arndt, Berlin
Composer, Albertz Benda, New York
Composer, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach Florida
2016 New Paintings, Arndt, Singapore
2015 Colour, Colnaghi, London
2014 Friedman Benda, New York
2011 Canary Wharf, London
2010 New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
2008 New Art Gallery, Walsall
2008 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge -
Selected collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
The British Council, London
British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Courtauld Gallery, London
Department of the Environment, London
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
High Museum, Atlanta, USA
Liverpool Cathedral
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Portrait Gallery, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
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Selected publications
2017 Composer, Christopher Le Brun, Windsor Press
2015 Colour, Christopher Le Brun, Colnaghi
2014 New Paintings, Christopher Le Brun, Ridinghouse
2012 Poems Paintings, Editions Moon Rainbow
2008 Christopher Le Brun, Stephen Snoddy & J.J. Charlesworth, The New Gallery Walsall
2001 Christopher Le Brun, Booth-Clibborn Editions
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