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Exhibitions

Mesmerising and eye-opening: Courtauld Gallery’s Fuseli and the Modern Woman reviewed

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

Courtauld Gallery, until 8 January 2023

Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel

Courtauld Gallery, until 29 January 2023

It’s not until you see this exhibition of drawings by Henry Fuseli that you realise that most artists have really not done anything like justice to women’s hair. Fuseli was obsessed with it, particularly that of his wife Sophia, a former artists’ model 20-plus years his junior. Hers was wildly extravagant even by the standards of the time – late 18th, early 19th century.

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