The Credit Suisse Exhibition:Gauguin Portraits opened today at the National Gallery in London.
A lecture introducing the exhibition was streamed live this morning and is now available on YouTube. Guest curator Cornelia Homburg from the National Gallery of Canada introduces the new exhibition in a video below. It lasts for 48 minutes - which is unusual for exhibition videos.
- I'd very much RECOMMEND that all those planning to see the exhibition should view this video first.
- If you click in the lower right corner you can view in whatever size you prefer on the YouTube website.
Reviews of Gauguin Portraits Exhibition
- Gauguin Portraits review, National Gallery: exquisite art by the Harvey Weinstein of the 19th century by Alastair Sooke | The Telegraph - awarded 5 out of 5 stars
Usually, when a gallery devotes an exhibition to a single artist, it builds upon a core of key works from its own holdings. Not this time.
Mounted in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the exhibition contains 56 stunning works of art, on loan from as far afield as Moscow, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.
- Gauguin Portraits review – a buttoned-up, nervous and nude-light cop-out of a show by Jonathan Jones | The Guardian - he awards it 3 out of 5 stars.
In a gallery that is elsewhere stuffed with naked white women, this exhibition’s avoidance of Gauguin’s unclothed Tahitians feels like an act of prudery – and even censorship
- Gauguin Portraits Review - It's all about the artist | The Times
- Gauguin Portraits Review | Time Out - 4 out of 5 stars
- Gauguin Portraits review: Sublime colour in these beauties from the beast | Evening Standard
Gauguin would have got short shrift in our times, but no matter: the works here, early to late, are unsettling, strange and beautiful. This exhibition doesn’t pretend he was a good man; it makes the case for a great artist.The next two reviews relate to the exhibition - of the same exhibition - at the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa, Canada (hence the curator introducing the exhibition in the video)
- Gauguin: Portraits National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa by Apollo Magazine
- For Gauguin, portraits reveal more about the artist than the model The Art Newspaper - aims to show how the painter explored his own identity through his subjects
More about Gauguin Exhibitions
- Record-breaking Gauguin Restrospective opens at Tate Modern - nine years ago this was my review of the major Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern