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Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Faience Jug and Fruit, c. 1900. Image: The Swiss Confederation, Federal Office of Culture, Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur
The close affinities between the Reinhart Collection and the Courtauld Galle- ry’s permanent collection provide the ideal context for this unprecedented exhibition. It presents a selection of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists.
At its heart are some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impres- sionism, including Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking depiction of the clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), Manet’s revolutionary painting of modern life ‘At the Café’ (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cézanne. Van Gogh’s two famous pain- tings are also present. For example, ‘A Hospital Ward in Arles’ and ‘The Hospital Courtyard in Arles’ (1889), illustrate the hospital where he was hospitalized after his nervous breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in his famous ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’ in the Courtauld Collection.