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Few landscapes have changed painting quite like the Côte d’Azur.From the late 19th century onwards, painters were drawn ...
18/09/2026

Few landscapes have changed painting quite like the Côte d’Azur.

From the late 19th century onwards, painters were drawn south by its extraordinary light, brilliant colour and Mediterranean landscape. The coast offered something radically different: a place where colour could become bolder, light more intense and familiar subjects feel entirely new.

Renoir, Matisse, Derain and Dufy each responded to the Riviera in different ways, from luminous landscapes and interiors to increasingly vivid, expressive colour. Derain famously compared its hues to “sticks of dynamite ... primed to discharge light.”

The Riviera soon became more than an artists’ retreat, evolving into an international symbol of glamour, freedom and escape.

This autumn, Burlington House revisits its remarkable artistic legacy.

Photographs with the Soul of Paintings - Discover Zaira ZarottiAt first glance, Zaira Zarotti’s photographs could easily...
14/09/2026

Photographs with the Soul of Paintings - Discover Zaira Zarotti

At first glance, Zaira Zarotti’s photographs could easily be mistaken for paintings.

Born to two artists and raised in Venice, she grew up immersed in a city shaped by centuries of art, architecture and visual culture. That combination of family influence and extraordinary surroundings helped form an instinctive sensitivity to colour, composition and light that has shaped her work ever since.

Her early experience in theatre photography encouraged a fascination with storytelling and mise-en-scène: carefully constructed scenes in which light, objects and composition all play their part. Drawing inspiration from Flemish, Renaissance, Baroque and Pre-Raphaelite painting, Zarotti brings these classical influences into contemporary photography. Natural light and dramatic chiaroscuro give her still lifes their distinctive depth, transforming flowers, fruit, food and familiar objects into something altogether more theatrical.

Zarotti’s fascination with the natural world runs throughout her work, from flowers and plants to changing seasons and expansive landscapes. Venice, the Venetian countryside and Tuscany are particularly important, photographed with an eye for the changing light, weather and small details that give each place its particular character.

Whether carefully staged or discovered outdoors, her photographs find something extraordinary in the everyday.

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11/09/2026

2026 marks 100 years since the death of Claude Monet, the artist whose name became almost synonymous with Impressionism.

In 1874, Monet exhibited Impression, Sunrise in Paris. Critic Louis Leroy seized on its title to mock the radical new style as “Impressionism”. The name stuck.

Monet spent the next half-century pursuing exactly what had so divided critics: the fleeting effects of light, weather and atmosphere. He returned to subjects again and again, from Mediterranean landscapes to haystacks, Rouen Cathedral and, finally, the water lily pond at Giverny.

Monet died there on 5 December 1926, aged 86. By then, he had spent more than half a century transforming the way artists looked at light, colour and landscape.

A century later, the movement once named in ridicule is inseparable from his name.

09/09/2026

Decorative Splendour: Art with Presence, History and Drama

There is room again for a little grandeur.

Decorative Splendour draws on the richness of historic decoration, where imagery was valued not only for its subject, but for the atmosphere, narrative and visual depth it could bring to a space.

After years of pared-back interiors and highly controlled schemes, there is a renewed appetite for ornament,
detail and a little more visual drama.

Imagery can stand alone or be developed through diptychs, triptychs or even panelled sequences, allowing the artwork to create very different effects across a wall.

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04/09/2026

Step inside Whimsical Wonders, our playful new Look Book

The most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction has an extraordinary story of survival.Gustav Klimt painted P...
03/09/2026

The most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction has an extraordinary story of survival.

Gustav Klimt painted Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer between 1914 and 1916. Standing nearly two metres tall, it depicts the 20-year-old daughter of one of Vienna’s wealthiest Jewish families, and one of Klimt’s most important patrons.

After the N**i annexation of Austria in 1938, the Lederers’ remarkable collection of Klimts were seized. Several works were later destroyed by fire, but Elisabeth’s portrait survived.

Elisabeth herself escaped persecution through an extraordinary claim: she declared that Klimt, rather than her Jewish father August Lederer, was her biological father, with her mother supporting the claim in a sworn affidavit.

In November 2025, the portrait sold for $236.4 million: the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of modern art, and the second highest for any artwork in auction history.

Charles-François Daubigny didn’t just paint rivers. He painted from one.👇In 1857, the French artist converted a boat, Le...
28/08/2026

Charles-François Daubigny didn’t just paint rivers. He painted from one.👇

In 1857, the French artist converted a boat, Le Botin, into a floating studio, travelling along the Seine and Oise and painting the landscapes around him. Born in Paris in 1817, Daubigny had begun his career as an illustrator before becoming one of the leading figures of the Barbizon School.

He was also an important supporter of the generation that followed, championing younger artists and helping to introduce Monet and Pissarro to the influential dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. Monet later adopted Daubigny’s idea and acquired a studio boat of his own.

24/08/2026

Why Olive Is the New Neutral

A rich meeting point between green, brown and yellow, olive belongs to the earthier side of the green spectrum. Its appeal today reflects a wider return to colours drawn from nature, but its depth gives it a sophistication that feels far removed from simple botanical green.

Muted greens have a long history in art. Green earth, or terre verte, was particularly important to medieval and Renaissance painters. Its soft green-grey tone was used beneath flesh, with layers of red and pink built over it to create convincing shadow and depth.

The nineteenth century transformed both the artist’s green palette and the status of landscape painting. New pigments, including chromium oxide green and later viridian, offered greater permanence and a wider range of colour. At the same time, artists were looking more closely at nature itself. Constable’s landscapes captured its shifting weather and light, while Daubigny took painting outdoors still further, working directly from his specially devised studio boat.

Today, olive offers a richer alternative to conventional neutrals and brighter greens. Calm yet complex, it can feel earthy, elegant or distinctly modern. Olivaceous Opulence celebrates that versatility, and the sense of understated luxury that gives olive its enduring appeal.

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Few painters made the n**e feel quite as modern, sensual or joyful as Moïse Kisling.A leading figure of the School of Pa...
21/08/2026

Few painters made the n**e feel quite as modern, sensual or joyful as Moïse Kisling.

A leading figure of the School of Paris, Kisling was immersed in the artistic world of Montmartre and Montparnasse, alongside Modigliani, Picasso, Chagall and Soutine. His n**es bring together sculptural figures, simplified forms and daring, unexpected colour, combining the influence of Cézanne and Cubism with a distinctly individual approach. Critic André Warnod famously described Kisling’s art as “a cry of joy”, an expression that perfectly captures the vitality of these bold, exuberant paintings.

17/08/2026

✨ From Interiors to Abstraction: The Joyful Art of Nancy Race ✨

Nancy Race discovered painting almost by chance. After years working as an interior designer, she joined an art class with friends and was surprised by how quickly it became a passion. She began with representational painting, but after moving to New York and immersing herself in the city’s museums, she was increasingly drawn to abstraction. She went on to study at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art.

Her background in interiors gave Race a natural confidence with colour, which has become one of the defining features of her work. She paints intuitively, building up acrylic, collage and expressive marks without always knowing where a painting will lead. Brushes are joined by less conventional tools, including finds from the hardware store, as she moves between organic loose forms and stronger geometric elements.

There is a sense of freedom and optimism throughout Race’s oeuvre. Her Christian faith, together with the colours and forms she finds in nature, provides a constant source of inspiration. Above all, she wants her paintings to bring joy: to lift a room, catch the eye and make living with art a pleasure.

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