Resources & Recommendations #17

Saturday, 1 February 2025. Newsletter 17.

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The Story of British Art - from Cave Paintings to Landscapes

The art historian Bendor Grosvenor, writer and former curator at the V&A Susan Owens, and artist Lucinda Rogers discuss the practice and history of drawing. The trio cover the intimacy of the medium and the contribution of British artists, from prehistoric bone carvings to the landscapes of Constable and Rogers’ New York winter 1988 sketchbook.

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Guided Tour: From Dürer to Matisse. Selected Drawings from the Collection of the Pushkin Museum

In April 2020, just two days after the opening of the Pushkin State Museum’s special exhibition ‘From Dürer to Matisse’, the Moscow museum was forced into lockdown by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Pushkin has a fine collection of 27,000 European drawings, rarely displayed inside or outside of Russia. This exhibition tour with the Russian artist Dmitry Gutov and the chief editor of BURO.ru, Kate Darma, examines some of the exhibition’s highlights.

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Discovering the Name of a 19th-Century Model in Paris

For those who enjoyed The National Gallery’s ‘Discover Degas and Miss Lala’ in the summer of 2024, Ramón Hurtado’s identification of one of the most popular models in 19th century Paris will be of interest. The old man with his thin frame and topknot can be recognised from works by Georges Seurat, Émile-Jules Pichot and Léon Bonnat, but who was he?