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Courtauld Gallery

Roger Fry's own collection, and Bloomsbury's painters hung together as they were meant to be seen.

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Fry, the critic who gave Post-Impressionism its name and the group its aesthetic, left his collection to the Courtauld in 1934, and the gallery has kept Bloomsbury as a strand: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Fry himself, Omega Workshops pieces, and the portraits they painted of each other. Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer, the 2026 exhibition, is about the woman who ran the Omega for Fry. The Courtauld's Cézannes, Gauguins and Van Gogh upstairs are the paintings Fry made Britain look at in 1910.

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Strand, WC2R 1LA
Nearest station
Temple · 3 min walk

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Monday10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday10:00 – 18:00
Thursday10:00 – 18:00
Friday10:00 – 18:00
Saturday10:00 – 18:00
Sunday10:00 – 18:00

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