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.
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery is the first ever museum show of Thiebaud's work in the UK. It presents Thiebaud’s remarkable, vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes of quintessentially post-war American subjects, from diner food and deli counters to gumball dispensers and pinball machines. These are the paintings with which Thiebaud made his name in the USA in the early 1960s.
A selection of exceptional paintings from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, will go on view at The Courtauld Gallery for an extended display from May 2025, while the Barber undergoes a major refurbishment project. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts was founded as a university gallery in 1932, the same year as The Courtauld Institute of Art and its collection.