Denmark’s Ordrupgaard Collection is a treasure trove of important Impressionist works. This year, we showcase 60 of its works by painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Gauguin – many of which have never been seen in the UK.
Tickets are now sold out. If you are unable to visit Gauguin and the Impressionists, we are offering a free virtual tour of the exhibition.
★ Everyone (including Friends) must book tickets for a timed slot online or by phone.
★ This exhibition has reduced capacity, so we may ask you to move on more quickly if the galleries become busy.
★ Please be aware: if you plan on visiting the Summer Exhibition that the lift nearest these exhibitions is out of order. Alternative routes are available but will add 10-15 minutes to your journey through the building.
★ All ticket holders can visit our free displays.
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The Ordrupgaard Collection outside Copenhagen reads like a 19th-century roll-call of Impressionist masters who reshaped Western art. It was assembled by a wealthy Danish couple with the help of an early champion of Impressionism and French writer, Théodore Duret.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to view the Ordrupgaard Collection’s treasure trove of Impressionist works, from Monet and Degas, to pre-Impressionist artists like Corot and Courbet, as well as artists associated with the Barbizon School such as Dupré and Daubigny.
The exhibition closes with a series of works by Paul Gauguin, which span his career, from Brittany to Tahiti, and chart the development of his highly personal use of colour and simplified forms.
Exhibition organised by Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Mon–Sun: 10am–6pm
£17 (without donation £15). Concessions available. Under-16s go free with a fee-paying adult. Everyone (including Friends) must book tickets for a timed slot online or by phone.
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
Paul Gauguin, Portrait of a Young Girl (Vaïte ‘Jeanne’ Goupil), 1896.
Berthe Morisot, Young Girl on the Grass, the Red Bodice (Mademoiselle Isabelle Lambert), 1885.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, Sketch, 1875-76.
Edgar Degas, Woman Arranging her Hair, 1894.
Camille Pissarro, Plum Trees in Blossom, Éragny (The Painter's Home), 1894.
Claude Monet, The Chailly Road through the Forest Fontainebleau, 1865.
Édouard Manet, Basket of Pears, 1882.
On 29 March 2020, we were due to open our new exhibition Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection. Since you can’t come to us, we thought we would bring a taste of it to you. In this video series, see a bite-sized biography of Gauguin, and take a deep dive into Renoir’s ‘Le Moulin de la Galette’ and Manet’s ‘Woman with a Jug’.
If you’re unable to visit, you can still explore our beautifully illustrated catalogues. Gauguin and the Impressionists illustrates 60 works from the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen, representing the very best of French painting from Ingres to Matisse.
In bustling Parisian street scenes, windswept seascapes and shimmering portraits, the Impressionists sought immediacy in their art. Writer Deborah Levy finds their approach as radical today as ever, in the masterpieces on show from the Ordrupgaard Collection.
How do you succeed as an artist in 19th-century Paris when male social circles are closed to you? Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès are two women artists who found a way.
Join curator, Anna Ferrari, as she introduces Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces of the Ordrupgaard Collection, including works by Manet, Pissarro, Degas and Morisot coming to the UK for the first time.
Wilhelm Hansen scoured 20th-century Paris collecting Impressionist paintings – even buying one from his dentist. Now, these paintings are coming to the UK for the first time in Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection.
On 29 March 2020, we were due to open our new exhibition ‘Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection’. Since you can’t come to us, we thought we would bring a taste of it to you. In this video series, see a bite-sized biography of Gauguin, and take a deep dive into Renoir’s ‘Le Moulin de la Galette’ and Manet’s ‘Woman with a Jug’.
Not every collector’s story ends happily. Novelist Sarah Dunant charts the bumpy tale behind Wilhelm Hansen’s treasured collection of Impressionist paintings, which go on display at the RA this spring.
The Impressionists are renowned for their enduring scenes of people and places, whether energetic seascapes or portraits of young women. Four artists – Hughie O‘Donoghue RA, Maggi Hambling, Ishbel Myerscough and Mali Morris RA – describe works that resonate with them in our upcoming exhibition ‘Gauguin and the Impressionists’.