Scottish National Gallery

Bailey's Stardust

18 July – 18 October 2015

David Bailey is one of the world's most distinguished and distinctive photographers. He has made an outstanding contribution to photography and the visual arts, creating consistently imaginative and thought-provoking portraits. As well as new work, this landmark exhibition includes a wide variety of Bailey’s photographs from a career that has spanned more than half a century.

Following on from the celebrated 2001 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art exhibition of Bailey’s photographs,Bailey's Stardust is the largest exhibition of his portraits ever to be shown in the UK. The exhibition comprises over 300 portraits including works that depict Bailey's time in East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Delhi and the Naga Hills, as well as icons from the worlds of fashion and the arts with striking portraits of the Rolling Stones, Catherine Bailey and the East End of London.

Exhibition presented in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The Scottish showing of Bailey’s Stardust is sponsored by Baillie Gifford & Co.

Mon-Sun, 10am-7pm

Outside August: Mon-Sun, 10am-5pm, Thurs, 10am-7pm

£11/£9

Scottish National Gallery

Jean-Étienne Liotard

4 July – 13 September 2015

The work of Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-89) has been rarely exhibited and this is the first time it will be comprehensively celebrated in Britain.

Liotard enjoyed a long career and his finest portraits display an astonishing hyper-realism achieved through a combination of incredible, intense observation and remarkable technical skills. He excelled at the delicate art of pastel, but also drew, painted in oil, created enamels, and was a refined miniaturist and printmaker. His activity was prodigious: Liotard wrote a treatise on painting, was a collector, a dealer, a traveller and an artistic innovator. In the age of Mozart and Casanova, he was a key international figure whose achievement deserves to be better known.

Highlights of this important show include famous portraits, startling self-portraits, and brilliant experiments with genre and still-life subjects from the end of his career.

Mon-Sun, 10am-7pm

Outside August: Mon-Sun, 10am-5pm; Thurs, 10am-7pm

£9/£7