An exhibition about one of history's greatest artists, Rembrandt, the first Scottish exhibition dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville and the art of painter Victoria Crowe will be among the major shows staged by the National Galleries of Scotland next year.
An exclusive show about "Britain's love affair" with Rembrandt, will be the major summer festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery next year.
The show, Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master, will reveal how the "taste for Rembrandt’s work in Britain evolved over the past 400 years."
The exhibition will also reveal the impact of Rembrandt’s art on the British imagination.
It will bring together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, including Belshazzar’s Feast from the National Gallery London, and Girl at a Window from Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as paintings now overseas, such as The Mill from the National Gallery in Washington, which left Britain when it was sold to a US collector for the sum of £100,000 in 1911.
Portrait of the Artist as Young Man from the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, which was the first painting by the artist to leave Holland and the first to enter a British collection, when it was presented to Charles I in the early 1630s, will also be in the show.
British artists in the show will include William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and works by John Bellany, Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach.
Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master, will open on 7 July and run until 14 October.
The large-scale summer exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in 2018 will be a major survey of the career of the German Expressionist artist, Emil Nolde (1867-1956).
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life, will comprise about 120 paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints.
During the Nazi rule of Germany, Nolde was branded a ‘degenerate’ artist and forbidden to work as a professional artist.
The works on show will also include Nolde’s flower and garden paintings, and his religious paintings.
The third instalment of NOW, a three-year series of contemporary art exhibitions currently running at the SNGMA, will open on 24 March 2018, and feature a presentation of works by renowned British artist Jenny Saville.
Saville graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1992 and has enjoyed success over the past 25 years.
She is best known for her paintings which often depict the naked female form on a large scale.
This will be the first museum exhibition of her work ever to be staged in Scotland.
It will feature monumental paintings and drawings dating between 1992 and 2017, which demonstrate the scale and ambition of the artist’s practice, and her singular and dynamic approach to composition, gesture, materials and subject matter.
Victoria Crowe: Beyond Likeness, which opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery next spring and runs until November 2018, will bring together a group of outstanding portraits by the distinguished Scottish artist.
The portraits selected include her friend, the composer Ronald Stevenson; the pioneer medical scientist Dame Janet Vaughan; the poet Kathleen Raine; the actor Graham Crowden; the psychiatrist R D Laing; and Professor Sir Peter Higgs.
Pin-ups: Toulouse Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity will be the first exhibition held at the NGS devoted to the art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), the celebrated French Post-Impressionist artist whose work is synonymous with the bohemian nightlife of Paris in the late-19th Century.
Sir John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: “We are extremely proud of what has been achieved at the National Galleries in recent years with a programme that has true international weight and showcases the very best of art from Scotland.
"We intend to build on this in 2018 with another world-class offer that reflects the range of our collection from stunning Old Master paintings to cutting edge contemporary art.
"We are especially pleased to be the only venue in Britain for a major Rembrandt show which will be one of the most ambitious and important exhibitions to be held anywhere in the UK next year."
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