Desired Beauty, the first comprehensive exhibition in Hungary displaying close to one hundred masterpieces from the unrivalled Pre-Raphaelite collection of Tate, is on view at the Hungarian National Gallery from 13 May through 22 August. The works of the Pre-Raphaelites, the artists of the most influential British art movement in the nineteenth century, occupy a prominent place in the collection of Tate, which holds the national collection of British art after 1500. This exhibition is accompanied by The Beauty of Utopia – Pre-Raphaelite influences in the Art of Turn-of-the-century Hungary, also at the National Gallery, showcasing the impact of the movement in Hungary.
Visitors to the first comprehensive exhibition in Hungary on the Pre-Raphaelite movement can view almost forty paintings and more than fifty graphic works from the world-renowned Pre-Raphaelite collection of Tate in London. The exhibited masterpieces include Ecce Ancilla Domini! (Annunciation) and Monna Vanna by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the founder of the movement, The Order of Release 1746, painted by John Everett Millais in 1852–1853 and The Lady of Shalott (1888) by John William Waterhouse. One of Rossetti’s cardinal pieces, The Day Dream, a Pre-Raphaelite work of iconic beauty, was loaned to the National Gallery by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The curator of the exhibition is Carol Jacobi, Tate Britain, Curator of British Painting (1850–1915), and its co-curator is Edit Plesznivy, Head of Department of Painting, Hungarian National Gallery. Thanks to the excellent partnership between the Budapest and London institutions, the extremely successful exhibition titled Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the London School came to the Hungarian National Gallery in 2018 from Tate Britain.
The Main Sponsor of the exhibition is Gránit Bank.
The Major Sponsor of the exhibitions is Szerencsejáték Zrt.
Our Cooperating Partner is NATURALii Concept Store, the distributor of Farrow & Ball paint.
Video:
Laura Kund
Gábor Dorcsák
Laczkovics Virág
