In keeping with its tradition of exhibiting masterworks from collections outside of New York, the Frick will present fifty-eight drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, London. This exhibition marks the first time that so many of the principal drawings in The Courtauld's renowned collection — one of Britain's most important — have been made available for loan. The prized sheets represent a survey of the extraordinary draftsmanship of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, British, and French artists active between the late Middle Ages and the early twentieth century. The survey features works executed in a range of drawing techniques and styles and for a variety of purposes, including preliminary sketches, practice studies, aide-mémoires, designs for other artworks, and finished pictures meant to be appreciated as independent works of art. Among the artists in the Frick's exhibition will be Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Théodore Géricault, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
The exhibition is organized by Colin B. Bailey, the Frick's Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, and Stephanie Buck, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery. The show, which is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, opens at The Courtauld Gallery, running from June 14, 2012, through September 9, 2012. It will travel to New York that October and will be a highlight of the Frick's fall exhibition program.
Support for the presentation in New York is generously provided by The Christian Humann Foundation, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, the late Melvin R. Seiden, the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, and an anonymous gift in honor of Colin B. Bailey and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was a leading Italian artist from the Renaissance period.
Georges Seurat, 1859 - 1891, was a leading 19th century French painter.
Andrea Mantegna, 1431 - 1506, was a 16th century Italian painter.
Albrecht Durer, 1471 - 1528, was a leading 16th century German painter.
Henri Matisse, 1869 - 1954 was a leading 20th century artist and member of the Fauves.
Hermensz van Rijn Rembrandt, 1606 - 1669 was a leading 17th century Dutch painter.
Francisco Goya, 1746 - 1828, was an important 18th century Spanish painter.
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853 - 1890, was a leading post - impressionist artist.
Paul Cezanne, 1839 - 1906 was a well known French painter who took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874.
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) was a leading portrait and landscape painter born in Sudbury, Suffolk.
JMW Turner (1775 - 1851) is recognised as one of the finest landscape painters in english history.
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) was a French painter. He is known as a founding father of impressionism but preferred to be known as a realist.
Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1684 - 1721, was a French Rococo painter.
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