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Symbolism in Poland and Britain
14 March  –  21 June 2009
Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Golden Stairs, 1880. © Tate
Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Golden Stairs 1880
© Tate

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In collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute, Tate Britain is showing a group of works by Polish Symbolist artists alongside paintings by their British contemporaries exploring the relationship between the two schools around 1900. The display features a selection of works that have been lent from public and private collections in Poland.

This is the first time there has been an exhibition on the subject of Polish art at Tate and the display launches the Polska!Year in the UK. Artists include Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alfred Gilbert, Stanisław Wyspiański, Józef Mehoffer, Witold Wojtkiewicz and Jacek Malczewski.

Explore works on display in the Tate Collection.

Book for Rebels, Martyrs and the Others: Rethinking Polish Modernism, an international conference at Birkbeck, University of London on 12 - 13 June 2009 at the School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London.

Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and launches Polska!Year