New Exhibitions in September

The Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum starts on September 10; it's already sold out for this year but booking for the rest of the run, from January 1 through to July 11, will open on October 21. If you've never seen this most breathtaking of historical artefacts, you may want to seize the chance before it leaves London next year for its permanent home in Normandy, which will have been renovated during its absence.

At Southampton City Art Gallery, we're promised an extensive exhibition of British art from the first half of the 20th century, drawing on the museum's own substantial holdings and those of the Ingram Collection. Running from September 26 to February 21, Art Then! British Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, 1910-1960 will feature artists including Barbara Hepworth, Gwen John, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious.  

There might not be much new on in London this month, but we'll always have Paris. Starting at the Musée Jacquemart-André with Timeless Tintoretto, exploring one of the leading figures of Italian Mannerism. On from September 11 to January 24, the show will bring together some 40 works from collections in France, Italy and beyond. The Jacquemart-André puts on good exhibitions, but in a space that's too small to swing even un très petit chat.... 

Claude Monet died 100 years ago, and at the Musée de l'Orangerie, home to his Water Lilies, you can enjoy Monet: Painting Time, an exhibition that focuses on the evolution of the painter's relationship with time over his long career. A selection of almost 40 of Monet's paintings, including rarely seen works from private collections, makes up the show, which is on from September 30 to January 25. A version will then cross the Channel to Tate Modern, opening in late February. 

More Monet, and very appropriately at the Musée Marmottan Monet for Histories of Landscape from Monet to Hockney (1890-2026). The show will trace the development of landscape painting through the period, highlighting a dialogue between Monet's work and that of 20th- and 21st-century artists. On from September 24 to January 31, before heading south to the Musée de Grenoble, where it opens in early March. 

At the Petit Palais, there'll be what is surprisingly the first ever large-scale retrospective devoted to one of the most prominent women in the Impressionist movement. Eva Gonzalès: A Free-Spirited Artist is scheduled to run from September 15 to January 24 and will feature almost 100 paintings, pastels and prints. It will transfer to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam starting on February 12.

Spoilt for choice in Paris so far? There's more! From September 23 to January 17, Cezanne et nous at the Grand Palais presents Paul Cezanne and his artistic legacy. This is going to be a whopper of a show, with nearly 180 works by Cezanne and artists he inspired, including Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian and Bridget Riley.   

At the northern French outpost of the Louvre in Lens, there's an exhibition looking at the aesthetics of the adorable, covering aspects from fluffy kittens to the colour pink and the attraction of glitter. At first glance, you might think it's all a bit icky, but there's Géricault, Poussin and Renoir, there's Jeff Koons; and there’s a 3000-year-old hedgehog-on-wheels toy (you MUST click on the link)! So Cute! The Art of Happiness will be on from September 23 to January 18.

Animals? Some of the most recognisable animals in art are in the brightly coloured paintings of the German Expressionist Franz Marc, founder of the Blue Rider group in the years before World War I. From September 12 to January 24, you can see Franz Marc: The Quest for a Better World at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf. With more than 120 paintings and works on paper, it's the first major Marc show in Germany in more than two decades.

Meanwhile, the new exhibition at the Zwinger in Dresden is devoted to one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. Correggio: Movingly Human is the first major show about him outside Italy, and it's on from September 19 to January 10.

The Kröller-Müller Museum, set in a national park on the outskirts of Otterlo in the eastern Netherlands, has the world's second-largest collection of art by Vincent van Gogh. From September 15, they're putting all 88 paintings on show together, for the first time since 1984. Van Gogh, All Our Paintings can be seen until January 3. 

There's one show in Amsterdam that you'd better book pretty soon if you want to get tickets: Yayoi Kusama at the Stedelijk Museum. Demand will surely increase following the announcement of the death of the Japanese artist in mid-August at the age of 97. Previous versions of this career retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation near Basel and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne were completely sold out, according to local media reports. It's at the Stedelijk from September 11 to January 17. 

For something a little quieter, head to Dordrecht for a night-time adventure in 17th-century Holland. It may have been very dark indeed, but Golden Age artists found plenty to depict in the hours From Dusk Till Dawn. This exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum has around 100 works from artists including Aelbert Cuyp, Gerrit Dou and Gesina ter Borch, and it's on from September 5 to February 21.  

Late September in Stockholm; it'll be getting chilly (climate change permitting), the nights starting to draw in. The perfect time to think back to summer, and those trips to the beach. September 24 sees the start of a big show at the Nationalmuseum, exploring the importance of the seaside as a motif in 19th- and 20th-century art, for the French Impressionists, Denmark's Skagen painters, John Constable, Sweden's own Anders Zorn, the American Winslow Homer and more. With around 200 exhibits, To the Sea! is on until February 7.  

There have been a number of shows recently highlighting women Surrealists; the latest comes to the Louisiana museum on the coast north of Copenhagen on September 18. Remedios Varo was a close friend of Leonora Carrington and many of her paintings display a similar blend of imagery drawn from different cultures. More than 70 works, many from collections in Mexico and the US, will be on show until January 10. 

And another Surrealist to complete our preview: Salvador Dalí and Fashion at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, bringing together more than 200 exhibits to demonstrate how the world of fashion influenced him, and vice versa. September 24 to January 31.

Last chance to see....

September 16 is the final day to catch the Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives exhibition at The Arc in Winchester, featuring four painters who used bold lines and vibrant colours to create a new style of art in the early 20th century, compared and contrasted with some of their contemporaries.

You've got till September 20 to drop into London's National Gallery for an evocative (and free) trip to the dramatic and beautiful scenery of Austria as captured in the landscapes of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. 

And September 27 is the last day to see the works illustrating the all-round talent of James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain. If you missed the show in London you can see a version of it at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam under the title Whistler: Dandy and Disruptor from October 16 to January 10. 

Images

Segment of Bayeux Tapestry. © La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie/Antoine Cazin

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Le Pont de l’Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. Photo © Musée Marmottan Monet
Franz Marc (1880-1916), Fox (Blue and Black Fox), 1911, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. Photo: Medienzentrum Wuppertal

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), The Sower, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. © Kröller-Müller Museum
Michael Ancher (1849-1927), A Stroll on the Beach, 1896. Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark

SJ Peploe (1871-1935), Interior with a Japanese Print, c. 1915, University of Hull Art Collection