Exhibition
Collecting Modernism: Pablo Picasso to Winifred Nicholson
25 Sep 2024-2 Mar 2025
Charleston
Lewes BN8 6LL
Overview
An exhibition from The Radev Collection.
Follow the extraordinary story of how a modern art collection came into being through over 80 paintings passed on between three queer homes: those of Eddie Sackville-West, Eardley Knollys, and Mattei Radev.
This notable collection, one of the biggest and most important groupings of modern British art in the country, offers an intimate perspective on the development of modernism across Europe. It offers a rare chance to get up close with work by some of the most influential artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, Winifred Nicholson, Amedeo Modigliani, Graham Sutherland, and key Bloomsbury figures such as Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant.
Woven through the show are the extraordinary lives of the collectors and custodians who grew and cherished this collection over many years, creating what is now known as the ‘Radev Collection’. Each work was lived with, loved and passed down in an unusual lineage of love and friendship.
Much like at Charleston, where works by Bloomsbury artists and their friends filled the walls, these pictures became an integral part of the collectors’ daily lives. Now, as the collection comes to Charleston for this exhibition, profound connections can be found in which art exists at the centre of everyday life.
Tickets £8.50| Concessions available