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The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting at Tate Britain
04/06/2008
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting is now showing at Tate Britain from 4 June – 31 August 2008
The exhibition will explore the responses of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930, offering vital historical and cultural perspectives on the challenging questions of the ‘Orient’ and its representation in British art.
It will bring together over 120 paintings, prints and drawings of bazaars, public baths, domestic interiors and religious sites, and all the major genres, themes and preoccupations of Orientalism in British art will be considered. Several exceptional and rarely seen paintings by John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear, David Wilkie, Richard Dadd, Lord Leighton, and William Holman Hunt, will be shown, as well as significant works by many less familiar names.
Private views of the exhibition can be enjoyed alongside corporate entertaining in the dramatic Manton Foyer with its beautiful Italian limestone floor and glass atrium, accommodating receptions for up to 500 or a dinner for up to 200 guests.
For entertaining opportunities in the Manton Foyer or within any of the other versatile venues at Tate Britain, please contact the Corporate Events team on 020 7887 8689 or corporatehospitality@tate.org.uk
