LONDON.- The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important
collections of drawings in Britain. Organised in collaboration
with The Frick Collection in New York, this exhibition presents
a magnificent selection of some sixty of its finest works. It
offers a rare opportunity to consider the art of drawing in the
hands of its greatest masters, including Dürer, Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Cézanne and
Matisse. The Courtauld last displayed a comparable selection of
its masterpieces more than twenty years ago and this exhibition
will bring the collection to new audiences nationally and
internationally. The exhibition opens with a group of works
dating from the 15th century, from both Northern and Southern
Europe. An exquisite and extremely rare early Netherlandish
drawing of a seated female saint from around 1475-85 is rooted
in late medieval workshop traditions. It was also at this time
that drawing assumed a new central role in nourishing individual
creativity, exemplified by two r