Goya to Impressionism : Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
Lovely exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery of works from the Oskar Reinhart Collection. This Swiss collection has a similar collecting policy to the Courtauld and Reinhart and Courtauld met in London in 1949. There was just a selection of work here with an emphasis on the Impressionists and Post- Impressionists but it included a beautiful earlier Goya of salmon steaks. I loved a picture of a wave by Courbet from 1870 which drew you into the pattern of the water as well as a Sisley of barges. My favourite though was a Manet of a café which had originally been part of a larger canvas which he reworked as two pictures the other being a well-known painting of a waitress now in The Met. Closed 25 May 2025 Reviews Times Guardian Telegraph Evening Standard