After 60 years, the Courtauld Collection returns to Paris with works of Impressionism

At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is running until June 17, 2019 The Courtauld Collection: a vision for impressionism, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the works ofimpressionism, belonging to the famous collection.

The exhibition brings together some 110 works, including 60 paintings and drawings, most of which are kept at the Courtauld Gallery or come from various international public and private collections. This is the first time in sixty years that the collection of English entrepreneur and patron Samuel Courtauld has been exhibited in Paris: a collection of French masterpieces spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

These include Manet’s Un Bar aux Folies Bergère (1882), Seurat’s La Jeune Femme se poudrant (1889-90), Cézanne’s Les Joueurs de cartes (1892-96), Autoportrait à l’oreille bandée by Van Gogh (1889), Gauguin’s Nevermore (1897), and a series of ten watercolors by William Turner owned by Samuel Courtauld’s brother Stephen Courtauld.
The exhibition aims to present to the public theimportant role that collectors have played throughout art history.

Samuel Courtauld (1876 - 1947), an entrepreneur and among England’s most famous art collectors, founded the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Courtauld Gallery in 1932. He was of fundamental importance in the UK’s knowledge of Cézanne, forming one of the largest collections of the artist’s works. He also owned fourteen paintings by Seurat.

Visitors can therefore see masterpieces by Amedeo Modigliani, Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Constantin Guys, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Benno Elkan, Paul Gauguin, William Gaunt, Georges Seurat, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Nash, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edouard Vuillard.

The exhibition is curated by Suzanne Pagé in collaboration with Angéline Scherf and Karen Serres.

For info: www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Tickets: Full 9 euros, reduced 4 euros.

After 60 years, the Courtauld Collection returns to Paris with works of Impressionism

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