The Linbury Lecture at the National Gallery 2024: Enemy Within? Cezanne's Bathers at the National Ga by National Gallery

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The Linbury Lecture at the National Gallery 2024 is the sixth in a series of annual lectures which bring distinguished personalities from the broad fields of culture, academia and museums to explore themes relating to the National Gallery's history and its collections.The revelatory restoration in 2024 of Paul Cezanne's monumental late Bathers painting draws renewed attention to its acquisition by the National Gallery 60 years ago. The sixth Cezanne painting to enter the national collection - earlier acquisitions were without fanfare - it was recognised by some like sculptor Henry Moore as a new lynchpin of the modern collection but met by others with startling hostility and condemnation. Why?The lecture paints - with a broad brush - the complicated social and cultural context in which Bathers arrived in the UK in 1964. The Chatterley trail; the Profumo scandal; the Cambridge traitors; the Wolfenden Report as yet awaiting enactment; the Beatles and British pop, art and music both; cosmopolitan London, newly 'swinging' but out of sync with the rest of the country. The acquisition at high price of an angular and rebarbative nude image - long championed by UK class and cultural elites but never enjoying any particular popular appeal - uniquely instantiated social and cultural misgivings at a key moment of historic flux.Christoper Riopelle gave this lecture at the Royal Academy, London, on 1 November 2024.AuthorChristopher Riopelle is the Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London.

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