It's surely an anniversary the Tate has long been counting down to: JMW Turner was born in 1775, John Constable in 1776. To mark the 250 years of two of the country's greatest painters, Turner and Constable is on at Tate Britain from November 27 to April 12. Rivals with very different approaches to landscape painting, they were both hugely influential. More than 170 works are promised, with Turner's Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons and Constable's White Horse coming home from the US for the show. Before those two were even born, Joseph Wright of Derby had already painted his most famous picture, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump . It'll be part of Wright of Derby: From the Shadows at the National Gallery from November 7 to May 10, which is intended to challenge the view of Wright as just a painter of light and shade and to illustrate how he used the night to explore deeper and more sombre themes. Only 20 or so works, however, making it a disappo...
In London, the Royal Academy gives a new lease of life to one show that was interrupted by the coronavirus lockdown and celebrates the delayed start of another.
The interrupted show looks at Léon Spilliaert, an artist whose finest work stems from his years at home in Ostend at the start of the 20th century, wandering the Belgian port city at night, haunted by insomnia and stomach troubles. It was the last exhibition we reviewed before lockdown, and Spilliaert really couldn't be a better symbol for social distancing, pictured alone in his studio or capturing the eeriness of deserted streets or beaches. August 5 to September 20.
On August 10, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford will be reopening, with limited tickets available for Young Rembrandt, the story of how an initially not particularly brilliant young artist from Leiden worked his way to the very top. Seeing Rembrandt blossom into one of the greatest painters of all time makes for an absolutely absorbing exhibition; we thought it was the best thing we saw in all of 2019 when we caught it in Leiden in the autumn. The run in Oxford will continue until November 1.
One of the most striking works of art produced in 1920s Germany is Ernst Barlach's Floating Angel, a mesmerising bronze sculpture that we were lucky enough to see in the Tate's show on the Aftermath of World War I a couple of years ago. Now the Albertinum in Dresden is staging the first ever comprehensive overview of Ernst Barlach on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth, with a focus on his wood carving. It's on from August 8 to January 10.
From the Albertinum in Dresden to the Albertina in Vienna, where the curtain goes up on August 27 on Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse: The Hahnloser Collection, featuring about 120 works from one of the most important private assemblies of late 19th- and early 20th-century French art. The renovation of the collection's normal home in Winterthur in Switzerland offers the Austrian capital a chance to admire paintings by the likes of Vuillard and Bonnard as well as outstanding Swiss painters such as Ferdinand Hodler and Félix Vallotton. The Vienna show runs until November 15.
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Léon Spilliaert, Self-Portrait, 1907, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image: © 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed, 1630, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Félix Vallotton, The White and the Black, 1913. © Photo: Reto Pedrini, Zurich
George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, 1762. © National Gallery, London
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