MUSEUM COLLECTIONS THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART
The Courtauld: Highlights from the Gallery Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen with Alixe Bovey, Alexandra Gerstein, Ketty Gottardo, Coralie Malissard, Karen Serres, Rachel Sloan, Barnaby Wright £15 / $19.95 Publication: November 2021 136 pages; pb 250 × 210 mm (8.3 × 9.8 in.) 978 1 78551 405 0 Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen is A&F Petitgas Head of the Courtauld Gallery; other contributors are members of the Courtauld Curatorial Department. Published to mark the reopening of the gallery in November 2021 after a major renovation.
The Courtauld is one of the UK’s great art collections, displayed throughout the magnificent historic setting of Somerset House in central London. This elegant book is a curated selection of its highlights – paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and decorative arts – each beautifully illustrated and accompanied by an insightful commentary. Notable among these treasures are remarkable impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, including the world-famous A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
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