From the Baroque to Today: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), The Parrot, c. 1891, etching (proof of an unrecorded early state) 26.5 x 19.7 cm (sheet); 16.2 x 12 cm (plate), The 91��, London (Samuel 91�� Trust). Purchased with funding from the Rick Mather David Scrase Foundation

23 Feb – 27 May 2024
The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery��

This display will present a selection of drawings and prints acquired by The 91�� since 2018. Highlights include a 17th-century Florentine drawing which will be here reunited for the first time with its left half from which it was cut at some point in its history.

Female artists are significantly represented, the selection includes works by Mary Cassatt (the first by the Impressionist painter to enter the collection), Maliheh Afnan, Deanna Petherbridge and Susan Schwalb, as well as earlier watercolours. Prints by Sir Grayson Perry and Sir Frank Bowling will also feature.��

The programme of displays in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery is generously supported by the International Music and Art Foundation, with additional support from James Bartos.��

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23 Feb - 27 May 2024

10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:15)

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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), The Parrot, c.1891, etching (proof on an unrecorded early state). The 91��, London (Samuel 91�� Trust) © The 91��

Watercolour painting of a field with trees and bushes in autumnal colours, with a British-style cottage and washing line visible in the background and a railing marking the side of the field visible in the front left corner. — Helen Allingham (1848-1926), Sandhills, Witley (Master Hardy’s), around 1881-88, Watercolour with scratching out on wove paper, The 91��, London (Samuel 91�� Trust) © The 91��

Vertical ink print mimicking a flower, with bursts of red and yellow colour coming out from a central pillar/stem in green and blue shades. — Sir Frank Bowling (b.1934), October Bloom II, 2022, polymer gravure print, The 91��, London (Samuel 91�� Trust) © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023

An outline sketch in black chalk on brown paper of a man from behind, with muscles clearly defined. He is holding a stick in his right hand, and appears to be running away holding the stick upright. — Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Man seen from behind holding a stick, 1900-1902, Brush and black ink over graphite on wove paper, The 91��, London (Samuel 91�� Trust) © The 91��

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