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21 juillet 2011

The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso @ The Courtauld Gallery

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Juan de Juanes (Vicente Juan Macip) (Valencia c.1510-1579 Bocairente), Two studies for Saint Stephen taken to his martyrdom. Pen and brown ink, 217 x 315 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collections of Spanish drawings in Britain. This exhibition is planned to coincide with the publication of the complete scholarly catalogue of the collection, which has been in preparation for the past three years. Comprising some 120 works, the collection ranges from the 16th to the 20th centuries and features examples by many of Spain’s greatest artists including Ribera, Murillo, Goya and Picasso.

Highlights of the exhibition include the Renaissance artist Juan de Juanes’s rare double-sided St Stephen led to his Martyrdom, a study for a painting now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The largest part of the collection covers the 17th century, the Golden Age of Spanish art. Drawings such as Jusepe de Ribera’s Man Tied to a Tree and works by Murillo and Alonso Cano testify to the quality and diversity of the draughtsmanship of this period. Also of great interest are drawings of striking quality by lesser known artists whose contributions are only now coming to be understood.

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Jusepe de Ribera (lo Spagnoletto) (1591-1652), Man tied to a tree, and a figure resting. Red chalk, 241 x 150 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Antonio García Reinoso (1623-1677), Sheet of figure studies, 1649. Red and black chalk, 214 x 303 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (Córdoba 1616-1668), Four studies of the head of a young man. Pen and brown ink, autograph monogram in centre A.C., 219 x 156 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Alonso Cano (1601-1667), Saint Bernardino and Saint Juan of Capistrano. Pen and brown ink, 76 x 123 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Francisco Pacheco (1564-1644), Saint Mark, 23 October 1632. Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white on brown paper, 362 x 221 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Francisco de Herrera the Younger 1627-1685) attributed, Guardian angel walking with a child. Pen and brush and brown ink, 130 x 88 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

From the 18th century, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s drawing Cantar y Bailar (Singing and Dancing) is outstanding for its energy and freedom of execution. This image of an old woman singing and playing the guitar originates from one of Goya’s celebrated private albums. The exhibition concludes with a group of works by Pablo Picasso. These include a delightful early drawing of pigs, executed around 1906 and once owned by the American writer Gertrude Stein, a close friend of the artist.

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828),Cantar y Bailar [Singing and Dancing]. Point of brush and black ink, 145 x 235 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Eugenio Lucas y Padilla (1824 -1870), A Woman walking, and other figures. Brush and black ink, heightened with white, 115 x 73 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Pigs, c.1906. Charcoal on paper, 213 x 273 mm © The Courtauld Gallery, London\Succession Picasso\DACS 2003

This is the first substantial exhibition on the tradition of Spanish drawings to take place in London and it captures the excitement and importance of this rapidly developing field of study.

Supported by the International Music and Art Foundation and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica

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