A SPECIAL SUMMER EXHIBITION PRESENTS A RICH SELECTION OF WORKS OF ART ACQUIRED BY THE COURTAULD GALLERY, LONDON, SINCE IT MOVED TO SOMERSET HOUSE TWENTY YEARS AGO. THE COURTAULD GALLERY IS SOMETIMES DESCRIBED AS A 'COLLECTION OF COLLECTIONS' AND HAS GROWN HISTORICALLY THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ENDOWED IT WITH THE REMARKABLE COLLECTIONS WHICH THEY FORM. THE GRAND TRADITION OF PHILANTHROPY, INITIATED AT THE GALLERY BY SAMUAL COURTAULD IN THE 1930s, CONTINUES TO EXTEND AND ENHANCE THE COURTAULD GALLERY'S WORLD-FAMOUS COLLECTIONS. IN 2007 THE GALLERY WAS BEQUEATHED A MAGNIFICENT GROUP OF OVER 50 MAJOR BRITISH WATERCOLOURS, INCLUDING NINE WORKS BY TURNER, ASSEMBLED BY DOROTHY SCHARF. ALONGSIDE SUCH EXTRAORDINARY ACTS OF PHILANTHROPY THE GALLERY HAS ALSO GROWN THROUGH GIFTS OF SINGLE WORKS OF ART AND, VERY OCCASIONALLY, BY DIRECT PURCHASES. THE EXHIBITION PRESENTS A WIDE RANGE OF WORKS BY CELEBRATED MASTERS AND LESSER-KNOWN FIGURES. IT INCLUDES WATERCOLOURS BY TURNER AND CONSTABLE AND OTHERS FROM THE SCHARF BEQUEST; A PORTRAIT OF THE BAROQUE SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT GIAN LORENZO BERNINI; A BEAUTIFUL DRAWING BY INGRES FOR HIS CELEBRATED GRANDE ODALISQUE; SCULPTURES BY DEGAS AND RODIN AND TWO OIL SKETCHES BY GEORGES SEURAT. THE EXHIBITION IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE AND ENJOY THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PAST TWENTY YEARS AND TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLECTIONS.
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