Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
Royal Academy of Arts – Until Mar 10, 2024 London (UK)

Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Van Gogh. You might recognise their paintings, but it’s their radical works on paper we put the spotlight on in this ground-breaking exhibition.

Future direction of art.

In the whirl of modernity that was late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, they lifted the status of works on paper – drawings, pastels, watercolours, temperas, gouaches – from something preparatory that you left in a studio, to artworks in their own right.

77 works.

In this rich exhibition, we bring together 77 works on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists whose innovation would challenge traditional attitudes and ultimately pave the way for later movements like Abstract Expressionism.

Royal Academy of Arts →  Burlington House, Piccadilly Mayfair – London, UK W1J 0BD

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