Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon, 1888. Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh.
Professor Frances Fowle, Senior Curator of French Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, provides a curator’s insight into the new exhibition A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art From Millet to Matisse at the Royal Scottish Academy and introduces masterpieces such as Gauguin's Vision after the Sermon (acquired for £1,150 in 1925), Degas' Portrait of Diego Martelli and the newly discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait.
The talk reveals how the Scottish national collection of modern French art was built up thanks to the foresight of major donors such as Alexander and Rosalind Maitland, and despite the challenges of rising prices and an industry in fakes. It also gives particular consideration to the role of influential dealers such as Alexander Reid and David Croal Thomson and the contribution of pioneering women collectors, among them the champion yachtsman Elizabeth Workman and the flamboyant socialite Evelyn St Croix Fleming.
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