The Courtauld Gallery is open
every day 10am to 6pm
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
London, WC2R 0RN
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The Courtauld Gallery, located in the Somerset House, is one of the world's great art collections. It includes painting, drawings, prints sculptures, and decorative arts ranging from the medieval period to the present day. It is renowned for its remarkable group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
The Gallery was formed by Samuel Courtauld (art collector), Viscount Lee of Fareham (diplomat and collector) and Sir Robert Wittform 9art historien) in 1932. It was housed in Home House in Portman Square. The three founders each bequeathed their art collections to the Gallery over the years. In 1958, the collection moved above the Warburg Institute in Bloomsbury before moving to its final house in Somerset House in 1989-1990.
From 2018 to 2021 the Courtauld Gallery closed as part of a major renovation project.
A remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale drawings by Frank Auerbach (born 1931), is being presented together for the first time at The Courtauld Gallery. The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads will be the first time Auerbach’s extraordinary post-war drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters; for him, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined.