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Exhibitions Archive
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys
19 October 2017 – 21 January 2018
Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement
20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017
Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection
18 February – 15 May 2016
Bruegel in Black & White: Three Grisailles Reunited
4 February – 8 May 2016
Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings
15 October 2015 – 17 January 2016
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat
17 September 2015 – 17 January 2016
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album
26 February 2015 – 25 May 2015
Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude
23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015
Jasper Johns: Regrets
12 September – 14 December 2014
Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq
20 February – 18 May 2014
A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany
30 January – 27 April 2014
Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld
19 September 2013 – 19 January 2014
The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure
17 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
Antiquity Unleashed: Aby Warburg, Dürer and Mantegna
17 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901
14 February – 27 May 2013
Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision
11 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery
14 June – 9 September 2012
Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel
16 February – 20 May 2012
The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso
13 October 2011– 15 January 2012
Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond The Moulin Rouge
16 June – 18 September 2011
Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours
17 February – 15 May 2011
Cézanne’s Card Players
21 October 2010 – 16 January 2011
The Courtauld Collects! 20 Years of Acquisitions
17 June – 19 September 2010
Michelangelo’s Dream
18 February – 16 May 2010
Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952–62
16 October 2009 – 17 January 2010
Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of The Omega Workshops 1913–19
18 June – 20 September 2009
Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests
12 February – 17 May 2009
Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld
30 October 2008 – 25 January 2009
The Courtauld Cézannes
26 June – 5 October 2008
Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge
21 February – 26 May 2008
Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes
25 October 2007 – 20 January 2008
Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve
21 June – 23 September 2007
Guercino: Mind to Paper
22 February – 13 May 2007
David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting
19 October 2006 – 21 January 2007
All Spirit and Fire: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo
23 February – 29 May 2006
André Derain: The London Paintings
27 October 2005 – 22 January 2006
Gabriele Münter: The Search for Expression 1906-1917
23 June – 11 September 2005
Special Displays Archive
Bloomsbury Art & Design
18 February – 21 September 2017
Georgiana Houghton: Spirit drawings
16 June – 11 September 2016
Unfinished… Works from The Courtauld Gallery
18 June – 20 September 2015
Jack of Diamonds
18 September 2014 – 18 January 2015
Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery
19 June – 21 September 2014
Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the ’20s
20 June – 8 September 2013
The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery Displays Archive
Artists at Work
3 May 2018 – 15 July 2018
Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de’ Medici
18 January – 15 April 2018
Drawing Together
30 September 2017 – 2 January 2018
William Henry Hunt: Country People
24 June – 17 September 2017
Reading Drawings
21 January – 4 June 2017
A Civic Utopia: Architecture and the City in France, 1765-1837
8 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
Regarding Trees
18 June – 25 September 2016
Ornament By Design
23 April – 12 June 2016
Bruegel, Not Bruegel
16 January – 17 April 2016
Panorama
26 September 2015 – 10 January 2016
Jonathan Richardson By Himself
24 June – 20 September 2015
Renaissance Modern
22 April – 7 June 2015
Helena’s Huyck
3 April – 12 April 2015
Unseen
15 January – 29 March 2015
MA Curating Exhibitions archive
There Not There
14 June – 15 July 2018
CORPUS: The Body Unbound
16 June – 17 July 2017
Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language
16 June – 17 July 2016
The Second Hand: Reworked Art Over Time
18 June – 19 July 2015
Impress: Print Making Expanded in Contemporary Art
20 June – 20 July 2014
Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape
20 June – 21 July 2013
Portrait of the Artist As…
26 June 2012– 22 July 2012
Falling Up: The Gravity of Art
23 June 2011– 4 September 2011
Blood Tears Faith Doubt: Historical and Contemporary Encounters
17 June – 18 July 2010
Once Upon a Time… Artists and Storytelling
25 June – 26 July 2009
Stages and Scenes: Creating Architectural Illusion
26 June – 27 July 2008
Illuminating Objects Programme
A Venetian Opalescent Glass Bowl
01 July 2018 -2 September 2018.
A ‘puzzle jug’ from Saintonge in Western France
14 February 2018 -7 June 2018.
17th Century Frame – Decorative Stones
8 June 2017- 15 February 2018
A Pendant in the Form of a Book
13 November 2015 – 15 March 2016
A Venetian Chalcedony and Adventurine Glass Bowl
March 2015 – 11 November 2015
Queen Anne Silver Coffee Pot
26 November 2014 – 1 March 2015
West African Loom Pulley
4 June – 12 November 2014
Iznik dish
6 November 2013 – March 2015
Filigree Drinking Glasses
24 July – 4 November 2013
German miniature picture Bibles
1 May – 22 July 2013
Spanish Lustre Dish
6 February – 29 April 2013
Mount Athos Cross
30 October 2012 – 3 February 2013