A collection of distinctive work from the Barber Institute of Nice Arts, College of Birmingham, will go on view at The Courtauld Gallery for an prolonged show from Might 2025, whereas the Barber undergoes a serious refurbishment challenge. The Barber Institute of Nice Arts was based as a college gallery in 1932, the identical 12 months as The Courtauld Institute of Artwork and its assortment. Each had been meant to encourage the research and public appreciation of artwork. Right now, the Barber and The Courtauld Gallery are dwelling to 2 of the best collections of European artwork within the nation.
Highlights from the gathering on the Barber embrace necessary works equivalent to Frans Hals’s Portrait of a Man Holding a Cranium (c. 1610-14), Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Portrait of Countess Golovina (1797-1800), Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blue Bower (1865), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Girl in a Backyard (1890). As well as, a handful of work with robust hyperlinks to The Courtauld’s personal assortment will likely be embedded within the everlasting assortment shows, amongst them Joshua Reynolds’s monumental double portrait Maria Marow Gideon and her brother William (1786-87).
This show is included within the Everlasting Assortment or Everlasting Assortment + Exhibition ticket.
23 Might 2025 – 22 Feb 2026
Katja and Nicolai Tangen twentieth Century Gallery, Flooring 3
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