Goya à l'impressionnisme – Chefs-d'œuvre de la collection Oskar Reinhart

The Oskar Reinhart Collection in Winterthur, northern Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable of its kind, ranging from superlative Old Master paintings and drawings to exceptional examples of Impressionist art. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, which narrates the story of the collector, Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), and presents an extraordinary group of masterpieces that are shown outside Winterthur for the first time in the history of the institution. Assembled in the first half of the twentieth century by Oskar Reinhart, the collection - apart from some donations to the state museum in Winterthur - opened to the public in 1958 in Reinhart’s beautiful villa ‘Am Römerholz’, where it has remained since. A clause in Reinhart’s will, however, explicitly barred the museum from lending to other institutions. For the first time in its history, a rich selection of highlights from the Oskar Reinhart Collection will be displayed outside Switzerland, ma