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The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA, UNITED KINGDOM

Thursday 14 June 2012

Sunday 9 September 2012

Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2526

The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collections of drawings in Britain. Organised in collaboration with the Frick Collection in New York, this exhibition presents a magnificent selection of some sixty of its finest works. It offers a rare opportunity to consider the art of drawing in the hands of its greatest masters, including Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Cézanne and Matisse. The Courtauld last displayed a comparable selection of its masterpieces more than twenty years ago and this exhibition will bring the collection to new audiences nationally and internationally.

Daily 10 am to 6 pm, last admission 5.30 pm

Included in admission to permanent collection:
Adult: £6.00, concessions: £4.50
On-line booking www.courtauld.ac.uk/tickets
Free admission: Mondays 10 am to 2 pm, except public holidays, at all times for under 18s, full-time UK students and unwaged.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue by a team of scholars led by Stephanie Buck, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery and Colin B. Bailey, the Frick's Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. Published by Paul Holberton in association with The Courtauld Gallery and the Frick Collection
Publication in May 2012
£30 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 907372 38 4
£40 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 907372 39 1
240 pages, 260 x 216 mm, 200 colour illustrations

Lates: Thursday 28 June, 2 August and 6 September 2012 until 9 pm. Listen to live music, take part in one of our art workshops, or hear an exhibition talk. Take inspiration from Rubens’s drawing of Helena Fourment. Wear something flamboyant, outrageous or intriguing on your head and get in for free.

Sponsors: International Music and Art Foundation, Friends of The Courtauld, The Tavolozza Foundation and The Doris Pacey Charitable Foundation.

Entrances on Victoria Embankment and Strand. British Rail mainline trains to Charing Cross, Waterloo or Blackfriars; underground stations Temple (District and Circle lines) (closed Sunday), Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) and Charing Cross (Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines); buses 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176 to Strand.