Egon Schiele - The Courtauld Gallery

Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with Stockings, 1914

Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude is at the Courtauld Gallery until 18 January 2015.
Schiele's forensic and unflinching drawings of male and female bodies executed in a fluent yet seemingly neurotic line and touched, or washed, with sickly colour can still shock a century after they were made. As Laura Cumming observes: they are beautiful and horrifying in equal measure. Shocking, too, is the realisation that no works by Schiele are to be found in British public collections - which makes this exhibition all the more exciting.
Read reviews by Alastair Sooke, Waldemar Januszczak,  Jackie Wullschlager, Jonathan Jones, and Laura Cumming (at the end of her piece on Moroni).
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Egon Schiele, Nude Self-Portrait, 1910

Egon Schiele, Seated Female Nude with Raised Right Arm, 1910

Egon Schiele, Squatting Female Nude, 1910

Egon Schiele, Two Girls Embracing, 1915

Egon Schiele, Male Lower Torso, 1910

Egon Schiele, Kneeling Nude with Raised Hands (Self-Portrait), 1910

Egon Schiele, Woman with Black Stockings, 1913

Mondrian // Nicholson in Parallel - The Courtauld Gallery

Ben Nicholson, 1937 (painting), 1937

Mondrian // Nicholson in Parallel at The Courtauld Gallery examines the brief moment when London became an international centre of Modernism, in 1938. In that year Piet Mondrian, at the invitation of Ben Nicholson left war threatened Paris for London. Mondrian and Nicholson together formed a nucleus of avant-gardism in Hampstead (also present were Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Berthold Lubetkin, Ernő Goldfinger, Ernst Gombrich and Sigmund Freud). 

At the outbreak of war, in 1939, Nicholson and Hepworth left London for St Ives; they invited Mondrian to join them, but the countryside hating Mondrian declined and subsequently made his way to New York.

Read a fascinating account of this moment by Frances Spalding as well as in The Courtauld Gallery press release.

The exhibition continues until 20 May.

Piet Mondrian, Composition No.III White-Yellow, 1935-42

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Double Line and Yellow, 1932

Ben Nicholson, 1936 (white relief), 1936

Ben Nicholson, 1940-43 (two forms), 1940-43