Moretti Fine Art is delighted to announce the forthcoming exhibition, ‘Face to Face: Portraits spanning Five Centuries’, which coincides with the highly anticipated reopening of the National Portrait Gallery after its extensive and transformative three-year renovation. Opening on Friday 30th June, as part of London Art Week 2023’s exciting line-up of events, this selective display will invite visitors to delve into the stories behind the sitters in a range of portraits spanning multiple centuries.
The exhibition will include important works by artists as diverse as the Baroque painter Giulio Cesare Procaccini, the nineteenth-century Realist Antonio Mancini and Luc Tuymans, one of the most accomplished visual artists of our time. In addition to exploring the circumstances in which these works were commissioned or created, the exhibition will look at the portraitists’ very different modes of expression: from Procaccini’s sophisticated allegorical portrait of the actress Orsola Cecchini, characteristically ‘sculptural’ in its handling of oil paint, to Tuymans’s sketch-like self-portrait, the first the artist created (when he was just eighteen years old), which prompted him to question the idea of originality – something with which Tuymans was to become preoccupied later in his career.
In line with the celebratory initiative launched by the National Portrait Gallery, Moretti Fine Art encourages everyone to get into ‘Portrait Mode’ this June and July. Visitors are invited to this exhibition that celebrates the enduring beauty and power of portraiture in all its myriad forms.
Moretti Fine Art
13 Duke Street, St. James's
London SW1Y 6DB
Opening hours
Monday - Friday
10 am - 6pm
The gallery will be exceptionally open on Sunday 2th July from 11am to 5pm.