Opening and Closing in June

Tate Britain offers a double-header of 20th-century British artists this month with Edward Burra -- Ithell Colquhoun. Though they were close contemporaries, it's not an obvious combination; Burra is perhaps best known for his depictions of sometimes seedy inter-war nightlife, Colquhoun for her Surrealist work. This show features more than 80 pictures by Burra and over 140 Colquhoun exhibits. On from June 13 to October 19. 

At the National Portrait Gallery, you can see Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, featuring 45 works from across the career of the contemporary British artist known for her large-scale, close-up paintings of the human body. June 20 to September 7.

Another double bill, this time at the Royal Academy, where contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer is paired with one of the all-time greats, Vincent Van Gogh. As a teenager Kiefer received a travel grant to follow in Vincent's footsteps. From June 28 to October 26 Kiefer/Van Gogh looks at the Dutchman's enduring influence on the German; it comes to the RA from Amsterdam, where reviews were mixed. 

There have been a number of shows rescuing Cedric Morris from relative obscurity in the past few years, but none in northern England. Till now. Cedric Morris: Artist, Plantsman & Traveller opens at the Maltings in Berwick-upon-Tweed on June 7, with loans from the Tate, the Portrait Gallery and other public and private collections. Until October 12, and admission is free. 

Meanwhile, in Sussex, a bid to offer a fresh perspective on one of the most influential of 20th-century artists, Andy Warhol. Curated by Warhol scholar Jean Wainwright, the exhibition at Newlands House in Petworth will combine drawings, prints, photographs, films and archive material with work by contemporary artists. Andy Warhol: My True Story is on from June 7 to September 14.   

It's one of the most famous books in the world, but it's only been displayed twice since the end of the 19th century; the book of hours made for the Duke of Berry, brother of King Charles V of France, containing 121 exquisite miniature paintings that have helped shape our perception of the Middle Ages. To celebrate its restoration, The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry at the Château de Chantilly north of Paris will assemble almost 150 exhibits from around the world from June 7 to October 5 to tell the full story of the manuscript. An unmissable show, they say: "Come and admire the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry as you will never see them again!"

Paul Cezanne's family home of Jas de Bouffan in Aix-en-Provence will be partially reopened to the public on June 28, and to mark the occasion the Musée Granet in Aix will be presenting an exhibition on Cezanne at Jas de Bouffan from June 28 to October 12. It promises more than 130 works revealing his deep connection to the house. 

We were in Provence a few months ago, and being fans of Pierre Bonnard, we went to have a look at the Musée Bonnard in Le Cannet, just outside Cannes, but found the display very underwhelming. If you're there from June 28 to November 2, though, you'll surely have more joy with Un Certain regard: Masterpieces from the Sidarta Collection, featuring 60 works by 28 artists from a previously unexhibited private collection. Alongside Bonnard, there's Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Matisse and Vuillard, to name just a few. 

The big exhibition marking the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto is continuing its international tour, taking on a new shape in each destination. At the Kunsthalle in Hamburg from June 13 to October 12, you can explore how Max Ernst and friends found inspiration in artists of an earlier era such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philip Otto Runge in Rendezvous of Dreams: Surrealism and German Romanticism. We saw a previous version of the Surrealism show at the Pompidou Centre last year. Final stop on the roadshow: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, starting in November.

Opening on June 14 at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam is The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism, featuring more than 100 paintings from some 50 international collections in an attempt to give an all-round view of Pissarro's work. This show runs until September 28, after which it can be seen at the Denver Art Museum. 

Think of minimalist design and you might look to Japan or Scandinavia -- but you might also think of a Christian sect in America in the 18th and 19th century called the Shakers, whose carefully crafted and simple furniture remains very desirable. The Shakers: A World in the Making at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in south-west Germany from June 7 to September 28 takes a broad look at the objects, the people who made them and their continuing influence. This exhibition will move on to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2026.  

A relatively unknown woman artist next (and we've highlighted a fair few since we've been writing this blog). A Swede this time, and it's the first ever monographic exhibition of Hanna Hirsch Pauli, with more than 130 works created over six decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her lack of visibility seems slightly strange, as Breakfast Time (below) is one of the most popular pictures in Stockholm's Nationalmuseum. Anyway, you can see Hanna Hirsch Pauli -- The Art of Being Free there from June 19 to January 11.

And next, women in Pop Art; now that's quite a complicated subject, isn't it? In many of the works produced by male Pop Artists, women are often presented as stereotypical sex objects. And there weren't that many women exponents of the genre, Pauline Boty and Jann Haworth being among the best known. A new show at Museum MORE in Gorssel in the eastern Netherlands focuses on the women in Pop, with work by nearly 60 artists, male and female. Pop Models is on from June 22 to September 28. 

On to Switzerland, where from June 20 to November 23 you can see some of the highlights of a major American collection at the Fondation Giannada in Martigny. It's From Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, and there's also Degas, Fragonard, Gauguin and Vuillard (but not Singer Sargent's Dr Pozzi; he's attending a call in New York).

For something rather different and probably very enlightening, head to the Hermitage in Lausanne: From June 27 to November 9 you can experience A Dream of Poland: 100 Masterpieces from the National Museum in Warsaw. This show highlights the development of Polish art in the period from 1850 to 1914, when the country was divided up between foreign powers but artists strove to keep its culture alive.

Our favourite exhibition last year was the Gustave Caillebotte show at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. After a stop at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, it's now moving on to the Art Institute of Chicago, home to one of the greatest of the Impressionist's pictures, Paris Street; Rainy Day. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting his World runs from June 29 to October 5, featuring more than 120 works. 

Last chance to see....

Closing on June 29 at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny is The Nahmad Collection: From Monet to Picasso, a somewhat uneven selection of Impressionist and other works from what's said to be the world's most valuable private art collection.  

Images

Edward Burra (1905-1976), Minuit Chanson, 1931, Private collection. © The estate of Edward Burra. Courtesy Lefevre Fine Art, London/Bridgeman Images
Bob Adelman (1930-2016), Andy Warhol at the Factory with 'Flower' Paintings, 1964. © Bob Adelman Estate. Courtesy the Bob Adelman Estate and Westwood Gallery NYC
Hanna Hirsch Pauli (1864-1940), Breakfast Time, 1887, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Max Ernst (1891-1976), The Angel of Hearth and Home (The Triumph of Surrealism), 1937, Hersaint Family Collection. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. Photo: Vincent Everarts Photography, Brussels
Julian Fałat (1853-1929), Winter Landscape with River and Bird, 1913, National Museum in Warsaw