Charleston in Firle present Inventing Post-Impressionism: works from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Offsite exhibition
In partnership with The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Charleston presents a major exhibition showcasing a selection of the Barbers Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks. The show will revisit the ground-breaking 1910 and 1912 Grafton Galleries exhibitions, where critic, curator and frequent visitor to Charleston, Roger Fry first introduced Post-Impressionism to a shocked British public.
Featuring iconic paintings and works on paper by artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Fernand Léger and more. The exhibition also includes items from Charleston’s permanent collection alongside a significant number of works from the Barber, whilst we are closed to enable major building improvements.
Alongside the main exhibition, the Spotlight Gallery will feature the return of a Paul Cézanne painting on loan from King’s College, Cambridge. Once owned by economist John Maynard Keynes, this work was famously left in a hedge outside Charleston after an auction trip to wartime Paris.
This exhibition, blending history, art, and Bloomsbury’s role in shaping British modernism, offers a rare opportunity to explore the lasting impact of Post-Impressionism on British art.
