Tate Modern || Exhibition: Dora Maar ||until 15.03.2020

The most comprehensive retrospective of Dora Maar ever held

 

During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism.

Her eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social documentary projects. In Europe’s increasingly fraught political climate, Maar signed her name to numerous left-wing manifestos – a radical gesture for a woman at that time.

Her relationship with Pablo Picasso had a profound effect on both their careers. She documented the creation of his most political work, Guernica 1937. He painted her many times, including Weeping Woman 1937. Together they made a series of portraits combining experimental photographic and printmaking techniques.

In middle and later life Maar withdrew from photography. She concentrated on painting and found stimulation and solace in poetry, religion, and philosophy, returning to her darkroom only in her seventies.

This exhibition will explore the breadth of Maar’s long career in the context of work by her contemporaries.

 

Dora Maar -Portrait d’Ubu, 1936 Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved

Dora Maar Untitled (Hand-Shell) 1934 © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved

Man looking inside a sidewalk inspection door, London, c. 1935 Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, New York, courtesy art2art Circulating Exhibitions © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved​

Model in Swimsuit 1936 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved

Dora Maar The Simulator, 1936 Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved

Dora Maar Woman sitting in profile, the bust dressed in a blouse made of tattoo patterns drawn on the photograph c. 1930 Private Collection © Estate of Dora Maar / DACS 2019, All Rights Reserved

TATE MODERN

Bankside
London SE1 9TG
Plan your visit

DATES

20 November 2019 – 15 March 2020

PRICING

£13 / FREE for Members

Concessions £12

Family child 12–18 years £5

Under 12s FREE (up to four per family adult)

16–25? Join Tate Collective for £5 tickets

See the exhibition for just £10 during Uniqlo Tate Lates. (Offer valid on visits from 18.00 during Uniqlo Tate Lates only.)

School groups must be booked in advance

Tickets can be booked online or by phone on +44 (0) 20 7887 8888 (9.45–18.00 daily)

For further information see booking FAQs

 

Source: Tate Modern

House of Illustration – London || Exhibition: Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation || from 06.03.2020 until 28.06.2020

The UK’s first public exhibition dedicated solely to gay cultural icon Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen) on the centenary of his birth.

This timely exhibition celebrates the artist whose unique aesthetic and homoerotic visions had a profound impact on the likes of Queen and the Village People – despite living and working in a country where both homosexuality and pornography were illegal.

It will feature iconic, previously unseen drawings from Tom of Finland Foundation’s collection – unabashed tributes to gay sexuality and identity which continue to have an outsize influence today.

Part of #TOMs100

This timely exhibition celebrates the artist whose unique aesthetic and homoerotic visions had a profound impact on the likes of Queen and the Village People – despite living and working in a country where both homosexuality and pornography were illegal.

It will feature iconic, previously unseen drawings from Tom of Finland Foundation’s collection – unabashed tributes to gay sexuality and identity which continue to have an outsize influence today.

Part of #TOMs100

 

Untitled, from ‘Sex on the Train’, 1974 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Untitled, 1974 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Untitled, from ‘The Tattooed Sailor’ series, 1962 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Untitled, from the ‘Sailor and the Cyclist’ series, 1963 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Source: House of Illustration 

Louvre Museum || Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci || until 24.02.2020

The year 2019 marks the 500-year anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in France, of particular importance for the Louvre, which holds the largest collection in the world of da Vinci’s paintings, as well as 22 drawings.

The museum is seizing the opportunity in this year of commemorations to gather as many of the artist’s paintings as possible around the five core works in its collections: The Virgin of the Rocks, La Belle Ferronnière, the Mona Lisa (which will remain in the gallery where it is normally displayed), the Saint John the Baptist, and the Saint Anne. The objective is to place them alongside a wide array of drawings as well as a small but significant series of paintings and sculptures from the master’s circle.

This unprecedented retrospective of da Vinci’s painting career will illustrate how he placed utmost importance on painting, and how his  investigation of the world, which he referred to as “the science of painting,” was the instrument of his art, seeking nothing less than to bring life to his paintings.

The exhibition is the culmination of more than ten years of work, notably including new scientific examinations of the Louvre’s paintings, and the conservation treatment of three of them, allowing for better understanding of da Vinci’s artistic practice and pictorial technique. Clarification of  his biography has also emerged through the exhaustive reexamination of archival documents. The exhibition will paint the portrait of a man and an artist of extraordinary freedom.

Organized by:

Vincent Delieuvin, Department of Paintings, and Louis Frank, Department of Prints and Drawings, Musée du Louvre.

Audio guide:

Discover the exhibition in more detail with 22 commentaries by Louvre curators (available in French and English).

Booking your visit

To ensure optimal visiting conditions for this much-awaited event, visitors will be required to make a reservation for a specific time slot for the  “Leonardo da Vinci” exhibition (October 24, 2019–February 24, 2020).
This shall apply to all visitors, including those entitled to free admission.
The reservation service will be open as of June 18, 2019 at www.ticketlouvre.fr

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Closing event: the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition will be open free of charge to all visitors for its final 3 nights

The exhibition will remain open from 9 p.m. on Friday, February 21, through to 5:45 p.m. on Monday, February 24, 2020—its final day.

A Louvre first, these three consecutive night openings will allow 30,000 more visitors to come and enjoy the exhibition.

Booking will be required (available at www.ticketlouvre.fr as of Tuesday, February 11), but all time slots between 9 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. will be free of charge.

The exhibition will be open from 9 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. on the following nights:
– Friday, February 21–Saturday, February 22, 2020
– Saturday, February 22–Sunday, February 23, 2020
– Sunday, February 23–Monday, February 24, 2020

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A free information booklet is available at the entrance of the exhibition.
It presents the different sections and provides commentary of each artwork on display.

Léonard de Vinci, Portrait de femme © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado

Source: Louvre Museum