Isabel Rawsthorne, Two Birds and a Fish, 1947-8, Oil on Canvas, 61 x 76, private collection

13 Oct 2020

À une Passante

- Isabel Rawsthorne, modern painter
by Carol Jacobi
Paris, France
The École des modernités

This lecture looks at the career of the english painter Isabel Rawsthorne, who was the intimate friend of Giacometti, Picasso, Derain, Bacon, Leiris, among others. For a long time her work has remained in the shadow of her name, known for her acquaintances. In its solitary path though nourished by her exchanges with the artistic milieu between Paris and London, her work is substantial for the history of the art of the modern period. This lecture will shed a new look at this rare work, shrouded in mystery and misinformation for many years. It will be the occasion to better understand and properly present an important modern artist.

Photo © carol Jacobi

Carol Jacobi is Curator of British Art 1850-1915 at Tate Britain. She gained her PhD from the University of London in 2000, was Leverhulme Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 and has worked internationally as a curator, writer, lecturer and broadcaster on nineteenth and twentieth century British Art. Recent exhibitions and publications include Van Gogh and Britain, 2019, ‘Pablo Picasso’s Portraits of Isabel Rawsthorne’, Burlington Magazine, 2018 and contributions to Isabel’, Derain, Balthus, Giacometti, Une amitié artistique, 2017, Francis Bacon: Paris, Monaco and the Cote d'Azure, 2016 and British Art in the Nuclear Age 2014. A monograph, Out of the Cage, the art of Isabel Rawsthorne is forthcoming 24 September 2020.

 

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