Digital Tour of Degas to Picasso: International Modern Masters and Richard Hamilton: Respective

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: 10am - 5pm

Wednesday: 10am - 5pm

Thursday: 10am - 5pm

Friday: 10am - 5pm

Saturday: 10am - 5pm

Sunday: 11am - 5pm

Take a digital tour through our exhibitions Degas to Picasso: International Modern Masters and Richard Hamilton: Respective and explore over 100 years of modern art.

To say the last year has been disruptive is an understatement. We know it will have been difficult for some of you to come visit us in person, so instead we are bringing our collection of Modern British art to you.

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Take a deeper look at our collection

Pablo Picasso, Composition, from the School Prints (1949)

International Influences on Modern British art

Why does a British Modern art gallery collect works by international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Edger Degas as well?

Artworks in Focus

Take a closer look at some of the key works in Degas to Picasso: International Modern Masters.

A group of men prepare to bath together. One lies on the ground already naked with the other two strip.

The Large Bathers by Paul Cézanne

Charcoal drawing of a nude woman combing her long hair, wearing red shoes.

Femme se peignant (Woman combing her hair) by Edgar Degas

Painting by Gino Severini in cubist style with geometric shapes and patterns. Depicts a full length view of a dancer performing the Can-Can, wearing yellow hose and white petticoats.

Danseuse No.5 by Gino Severini

Black and white etching by Manet depicting a nude white woman lying on a bed with a flower tucked in her hair. She gazes boldly out at the viewer while a black woman holds a bundle of decorated fabric. A black cat stands at the end of the bed.

Manet's Olympia: Laure and Victorine

Painting by Édouard Vuillard depicting a woman combing her hair in a room cluttered with furniture and canvases.

Model seated in a chair, combing her hair by Édouard Vuillard

Meet the artists

Get to know the people behind the art.

Etching depicting a woman with long dark hair in a braid and wearing a dress with a band of cloth tied across her waist and flowing behind her. Her body faces to the left but her head is turned out to the viewer with her hands raised and a sorrowful expression on her face.

"No mere Fauvette" - The art of Marie Laurencin

Richard Hamilton working on his reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass

The Pop Artist and Dadaist: Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp

A line of winter trees and stone monument on left hand side and parked vehicles and industrial buildings on right hand side. Palette largely of greys, browns and olive with some reds and pinks in building facade.

Celebrating émigré artists in Britain

Be inspired and get creative

Feeling inspired? Try these creative activities at home.

Painting by Gino Severini in cubist style with geometric shapes and patterns. Depicts a full length view of a dancer performing the Can-Can, wearing yellow hose and white petticoats.

Make a Futurist paper puppet

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Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different? (1992)

Make a pop art inspired collage

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Photograph of two men with their hands cuffed together, shielding their faces from the viewer. The photograph is encased in a metal frame made to look like the door of a car.

A picture tells a thousand stories

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