Partnerships
In line with advice from Public Health England earlier this year, a number of our partner exhibitions across the UK temporarily closed. Find out when our partner exhibitions will reopen below.
Our Vernon Square campus is currently open for limited purposes and our Somerset House building remains closed – find out more here.
We are currently transforming our Gallery, teaching and social spaces. We will re-open in Spring 2021 with a greater variety of works from our collection on display than ever before and an expanded exhibition programme.
Whilst The Courtauld Gallery is closed for refurbishment, we have partnered both nationally and internationally to provide unique opportunities for more audiences to engage with The Courtauld’s collection.
National Partnerships
In one strand of our work, we have focused on our shared industrial heritage with locations across the UK. Inspired by the legacy of Courtaulds Ltd, the textile company that made our founder, Samuel Courtauld, his fortune, we are collaborating with local museums and galleries to develop exhibitions, volunteer led projects and school workshops that engage with schools and communities, to learn more about the history of Samuel Courtauld’s collection and Courtaulds Ltd in their area.
These principal partners include
- Braintree District Museum
- Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
- Greenfield Valley Heritage Park
- The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
- The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry
- Ulster Museum, Belfast
- Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Find out more about our National Partners programme.
UK Touring Exhibition
Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld
A touring exhibition of remarkable pieces of Islamic metalwork dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The objects include some of the finest examples of this intricate craft from modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Turkey, and will travel to four venues across the UK. The most spectacular piece in the collection is the Courtauld Bag, made in Mosul, present-day northern Iraq, for a noble lady of the Persian-Mongol court, around 1300 – 1330. It is recognised as one of the finest pieces of Islamic inlaid metalwork in existence, and the only surviving object of its kind.
This national tour of the collection will be the first time the Courtauld Bag will be shown outside the Courtauld in over 40 years.
- Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford: 28 Aug – 21 Sept 2020
- History of Science Museum, University of Oxford: 9 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021
- Holburne Museum, Bath: 21 Jan – May 2021
Other partnerships
The National Gallery, London
The Courtauld at the National Gallery.
25 Courtauld works are able to be viewed, free of charge, throughout The National Gallery’s permanent collection while The Courtauld Gallery is closed for refurbishment.
The Science Museum London
Illuminating Objects
A series of small displays focused around one object from The Courtauld Gallery’s collection delivered in partnership with the Science Museum and interns from disciplines outside of the History of Art.
The latest in our Illuminating Objects series is a digital display exploring the sculpture Habitation by French artist, César Baldacinni, known as César. It will be displayed at the Science Museum when it reopens later this year.
Illuminating Objects is supported by McQueens Flowers Ltd.
Royal Holloway, University of London
Impressions of Modern Life: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery
An online exhibition showcasing 24 prints from our collection by world-renowned artists such as Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, in partnership with Royal Holloway University.
International Partnerships
Past exhibitions:
Masterpieces of Impressionism: The Courtauld Collection
A major touring exhibition of 60 works from our collection in Japan as part of the British Council’s UK in Japan 2019-20 Season. This touring exhibition was developed in collaboration with the newspaper and media group Asahi Shimbun.
- Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo: 10 Sept – 15 Dec 2019
- Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya: 3 Jan – 2 March 2020
- Kobe City Museum: Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism
20 Feb – 17 June 2019
This landmark exhibition explored Samuel Courtauld’s role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century and showcased his extraordinary collection, which was displayed in Paris for the first time in over sixty years.It brought together around 100 works that all belonged to Samuel Courtauld. The majority of these are owned by The Courtauld Gallery and they were reunited with other important paintings formerly in Courtauld’s collection and now held in international public and private collections.
