Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons
19 June / 14 September
The first major retrospectiveof Twombly’s work in the UK for over twenty years, presents a unique opportunity to view paintings, drawings and sculpture from throughout the long and distinguished career of an artist who emerged in the 1950s as a prominent figure among a generation of artists working in New York. The exhibition will focus on key cycles of related works, multi-part works and some of Twombly’s monumental series of paintings interspersed with drawings and sculpture.
Tate Britain
Millbank, London
www.tate.org.uk
The Lure of the East
Through 31 August
Exploring the responses of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930, this exhibition offers perspectives on the challenging questions of the ‘Orient’ and its representation in British art. By bringing together over 120 paintings, prints and drawings of bazaars, public baths, domestic interiors and religious sites, all the major genres, themes and preoccupations of Orientalism are presented with exceptional and rarely seen work by John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear, David Wilkie, Richard Dadd, Lord Leighton, and William Holman Hunt among others.
The National Gallery London
Trafalgar Square, London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Love
24 July / 5 October
Comprising works of art from the 15th century to the present day, this exhibition explores how artists have represented this most powerful of emotions. Encompassing divine and mortal expressions of love, chaste and unchaste love, family love and charity, the exhibition looks at how artists including Raphael, Cranach, Vermeer, Holman Hunt and Chagall have described or responded to love in all its complexities, across the centuries, and in a variety of styles.
The Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House, Strand, London
www.courtauld.ac.uk
The Courtauld Cézannes
26 June / 5 October
The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) in Britain. This exhibition presents the entire collection for the first time with major paintings such as the iconic Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1887) and Card Players (1892–5) shown alongside rarely seen drawings and watercolours. Also on display will be a previously unexhibited group of nine autograph letters in which Cézanne reflects upon the principles of his artistic practice.
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