The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cezanne (1839 1906) in Britain. This is the catalogue to an exhibition showing the entire collection together for the first time, marking the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art s 75th anniversary. The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings and rarely seen drawings and watercolors from the major periods of the artist s long career.The collection includes such masterpieces as the iconic Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1887 one of the...

Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, this book examines the remarkable drawings made by Durer as a young man from 1490 to 1495, especially those made during his journeyman years, or Wanderjahre considered the final part of a craftsman s training and a second shorter trip which immediately followed and seems to have brought the artist to Italy. These trips form the framework for the book, which focuses on the young artist s figure studies and has at its heart the Courtauld Gallery s double-sided drawing of a Wise Virgin and Two studies of the artist s left leg. This...

The exhibition and catalogue cast a fresh light on this innovative 'artists' artist', who continues to inspire and engage artists and audiences three and a half centuries after his death.