Christie’s is proud to support After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, a major exhibition opening at the National Gallery from 25 March. The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and traces the influences they had on their peers, the generations of French artists that followed, and the wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.

With over 100 works by artists ranging from Klimt and Kokoschka, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the main themes in the development of the visual arts in Europe at this time: the break with conventional representation of the external world, and the forging of non-naturalist visual languages with an emphasis on the materiality of the art object expressed through line, colour, surface, texture and pattern.

The exhibition is curated by the art historian and curator MaryAnne Stevens and Christopher Riopelle, the National Gallery’s Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings, with guest associate curator, art historian Julien Domercq.
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