The Wallace Collection has announced an exciting 2024 collaboration with British artist Flora Yukhnovich
Drawing inspiration from the French Rococo – whose leading exponents included Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) – Yukhnovich creates extraordinary, large-scale paintings, which move between representation and abstraction.
Home to the most important collection of François Boucher's paintings worldwide, the Wallace Collection has invited Yukhnovich to create two new works inspired by his oeuvre. During his lifetime, Boucher became the most fashionable artist in France under the patronage of Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), Louis XV's powerful mistress, whose refined tastes would influence French art for two decades. His celebrated and influential paintings have had an enduring influence on Yukhnovich’s work.
Flora’s paintings will temporarily replace two of Boucher's works at the top of the grand staircase on the landing of Hertford House, a unique space at the Collection which displays only works by this undisputed master of the Rococo.
Boucher’s two large scenes, Pastoral with a Bagpipe Player (1749) and Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain (1749), will be moved to a white-walled contemporary display space on the ground floor. The paintings will be replaced by the new Yukhnovich works for the duration of the display; the works will hang as part of the Collection’s display, immersed in the 18th century and conversing with the works by Boucher surrounding them.
Flora Yukhnovich at the Wallace Collection: June 2024 - October 2024
Venue: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
Further Information: The Wallace Collection - The Wallace Collection