Tuesday, 23rd February 2010, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
The Fleming Collection
13 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DU
£17.50 for Japan Society members
cost includes wine & snacks
Deadline for booking: Monday, 15th February 2010

Japan Society members are invited to this special private viewing of the complete Colourist collection exhibition from The Fleming Collection, the first time the paintings have been viewed together since 2003.

Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter, and John Duncan Fergusson comprise the group known as the Scottish Colourists. The exhibition highlights the Colourists’ achievements as key players in the introduction of modern art in Britain, among the most forward thinking British artists of the early 20th century.

As well as Scotland, France figured largely in their lives. All were attracted by the lively artistic life of Paris, spending varying periods there as well as in the South of France where they enjoyed the brilliant light of the Côte d’Azur and further west at Cassis. At the time the Post-Impressionism of Cézanne and Van Gogh was giving way to Matisse and the Fauves, only to be followed by Picasso and the Cubists.

The exhibition has just been on display at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to wide acclaim and Michael Palin, who is a great admirer of their work, did a series of programmes following their footsteps, both in the south of France and in Scotland.

To book your place please contact the Japan Society office on tel: 020 7828 6330 or email: events@japansociety.org.uk