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Exhibitions

Samuel Courtauld’s great collection

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the ’20s

Courtauld Gallery, until 8 September

Vermeer and Music

National Gallery, until 8 September

Michael Landy: Saints Alive

National Gallery, until 24 November

In 1929, Samuel Courtauld owned the most important collection of works by Paul Gauguin in England: five paintings, ten woodcuts and a sculpture. He subsequently sold two of the paintings, but for this show the gallery that bears Courtauld’s name has borrowed them back. One of them is the very beautiful ‘Martinique Landscape’ (1887), now owned by the National Galleries of Scotland, in which colour and pattern lock together in the most subtle and satisfying way.

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