This exhibition explores the creative dialogue between British and French artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

These years saw the emergence of a dynamic modern art, focused on the human figure and life in the city. The exhibition tells this story by concentrating on the influential works of the French artists Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), and the British painter Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942).

The exhibition has been organised so that Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec are introduced in turn, in the context of their wider circle of friends, colleagues and contemporaries. It examines the intricate web of artistic influences and friendships that underpinned the development of modern art in London and in Paris. It also explores the vital role of critics and exhibitions, of different collectors and tastemakers, and of the modern city itself.

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