Paul Cezanne s Les Grand Baigneurs. Courtesy of the Pallant Gallery. Credit: Cezanne / Pallant Gallery
A pre-lockdown trip to ‘Degas to Picasso: International Modern Masters’ at the Pallant House Gallery leaves you feeling that British Modernism isn’t easy to pigeonhole not now, and not a century ago. That s the feeling of Charles Darwent after viewing a show that epitomises an international movement.
This winter’s show at Pallant House Gallery is both much as you’d expect from its name and rather less so. Expected, because it includes works by the usual suspects of International Modernism Matisse, Picasso, Paul Klee and so on and unexpected, because of where it is.