National Galleries of Scotland, National Gallery Complex – Impressionism and Scotland
National Gallery Complex, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL. 0131 624 6200Impressionism & Scotland
This major international exhibition explores the Scottish taste for Impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the impact of this art on two generations of artists in Scotland. The label ‘Impressionism’ was then applied to artists as diverse as Whistler, Corot, McTaggart, the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists; this exhibition of over a hundred works includes paintings, pastels and watercolours by these artists, as well as works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin and ToulouseLautrec. Highlights of the show include Degas’s L’Absinthe, which was famously hissed when it came up for auction in 1892, and Lavery’s The Tennis Party, a rare example of Scottish modernlife painting. Other major Impressionist works have been lent from private and public collections in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany, the USA and Australia.
19 Jul - 12 Oct
Fri - Wed 10am - 5pm
Thurs 10am - 7pm
Aug: Fri - Wed 10am - 6pm
Thurs 10am - 7pm
£8 (£6)
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