Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
25 November 2023 - 10 March 2024
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries | Burlington Gardens
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Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Van Gogh. You might recognise their paintings, but it’s their radical works on paper we put the spotlight on in this ground-breaking exhibition.
In the whirl of modernity that was late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, they lifted the status of works on paper – drawings, pastels, watercolours, temperas, gouaches – from something preparatory that you left in a studio, to artworks in their own right.
In this rich exhibition, we bring together 77 works on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists whose innovation would challenge traditional attitudes and ultimately pave the way for later movements like Abstract Expressionism.
This exhibition will be closed 24–26 December 2023. It will be open from 10am–9pm on Saturday 30 December 2023. It will be open from 10am–6pm on Monday 1 January 2024. Find out our full Christmas opening times.
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Reviews
“A different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists”
Evening Standard
“Treasures to be found”
Time Out
“Rewrites the Impressionists’ origin story”
The Independent
“Full of delicious little surprises”
The Telegraph
"Fragile, rarely seen works"
The Observer
"Reminds us of how innovative they were"
The i
“Once-in-a-lifetime show”
The Spectator
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Study of a Woman from Behind, 1890-97
Dancers on a Bench, c. 1898
Portrait of Isabelle Lambert, 1885
Dancer Seen from Behind, 1873
Cliffs at Etretat: The Needle Rock and Porte d’Aval, c. 1885
At the Circus: The Encore, 1899
After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, c. 1890-95
The Fortifications of Paris with Houses, 1887
Seated Youth, Study for 'Bathers at Asnières’, 1883
Dancer Yawning (Dancer Stretching), 1873
Ophelia Among the Flowers, c.1905-08
Two Dancers Resting, c.1880
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