Outside the Tate in London, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge probably has the strongest collection of artworks by artists working in France in the first half of the 20th Century: Rodin, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Matisse, Maillol, Picasso, Derain, Dufy, Léger, Giacometti, Modigliani, Marquet, Bonnard and Vuillard are all represented, alongside a James Ensor, relatively rarely represented in UK art collections. The collection's 20th Century collection of British sculpture and abstract painting from the 1950s and 1960s are two other particular strengths, alongside a good selection from the Camden Town Group.
Cubist Design c.1911
Georges Braque (1882–1963)
Oil on canvas
H 72.5 x W 54 cm
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Portrait of Mrs M. 1919
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 68.2 x W 56.8 cm
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The Polish Tavern 1901–1903
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925)
Oil on canvas
H 38.3 x W 56.2 cm
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House among Trees 1918
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 48.6 x W 42.2 cm
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Standing Figure: Girl with a Stick 1950–1975
Reg Butler (1913–1981) and Rosemary Young (1930–2019)
Bronze
H 21.3 x W 8.3 x D 6.7 cm
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A Little Town of Provence 1922
David Young Cameron (1865–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 66.4 x W 66.1 cm
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Standing Figure 1950–1975
Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
Bronze
H 32.3 x W 6.8 x D 6.6 cm
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Lozenge Painting 1966
Harold Cohen (1928–2016)
Acrylic on canvas
H 45.7 x W 45.7 cm
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Alan Davie (1920–2014)
Oil on canvas
H 213.4 x W 173 cm
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Madame Van Leer c.1929
André Derain (1880–1954)
Oil on panel
H 50.1 x W 35.9 cm
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The Basket of Bread 1914
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953)
Oil on canvas
H 22.2 x W 27 cm
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Charles Ricketts (1866–1931), and Charles Shannon (1863–1937), as Medieval Saints 1920
Edmund Dulac (1882–1953)
Tempera on linen
H 38.7 x W 30.5 cm
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James Ensor (1860–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 59.1 x W 73.7 cm
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The Dead Mole 1912
Frederick Etchells (1886–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 167 x W 106 cm
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Warrior 1963 1963
Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)
Bronze
H 60.9 x W 23 x D 26.6 cm
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Orange and Yellow Verticals 1959
Terry Frost (1915–2003)
Oil on canvas
H 270.7 x W 102.3 cm
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Still Life of Fish 1928
Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)
Oil on canvas
H 46.7 x W 55.3 cm
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Violin and Bust 1934
Mark Gertler (1891–1939)
Oil on millboard
H 36.8 x W 46.3 cm
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Naked Pygmy Looking up to Naked Girl and Man on Tree and Naked
Eric Gill (1882–1940)
Wood
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Nude on a Bed c.1914
Harold Gilman (1876–1919)
Oil on canvas
H 61.4 x W 46.7 cm
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The Church of All Souls, Langham Place, London 1924
Charles Ginner (1878–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 55.6 cm
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DII 1974
John Golding (1929–2012)
Acrylic on cotton duck
H 165.1 x W 198.2 cm
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The Green Dress 1908–1909
Spencer Gore (1878–1914)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 35.5 cm
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Still Life with Eggs and Carrots
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 35.5 x W 46 cm
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Miss Mary Coss 1931
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Oil on canvas-covered board
H 44.2 x W 35.3 cm
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Volcano and White Bird, Iceland 1974–1975
Keith Grant (b.1930)
Oil on canvas
H 106.5 x W 106.5 cm
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L'Escoutay 1957
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988)
Oil on canvas
H 100.2 x W 80.6 cm
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Josef Herman (1911–2000)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 50.5 cm
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The Boat House 1956
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 84.2 cm
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Farmyard at Soberton, Surrey 1923
Charles John Holmes (1868–1936)
Oil on canvas
H 68.6 x W 76.5 cm
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Memory Mirror 1981
John Hoyland (1934–2011)
Acrylic on canvas
H 91.4 x W 74.1 cm
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Arenig Fawr, North Wales c.1911
James Dickson Innes (1887–1914)
Oil on panel
H 30.5 x W 40.9 cm
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Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on panel
H 35.5 x W 26.7 cm
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The Convalescent c.1923–1924
Gwen John (1876–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 41.2 x W 33 cm
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Lock on the Canal 1913
Stanislawa de Karlowska (1876–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 56.2 x W 45.7 cm
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Peter Kapitza 1926
Boris Kustodiyev (1878–1927)
Oil on canvas
H 107.9 x W 90.5 cm
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Lytton Strachey c.1913–1914
Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 46 cm
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Lyndra in Wales 1910–1914
Derwent Lees (1884–1931)
Oil on panel
H 32.7 x W 40.6 cm
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Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882–1950)
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 76.6 x W 64.2 cm
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After the Wedding 1939
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 53.3 x W 43.4 cm
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Young Girl Holding a Flower 1954
Fernand Léger (1881–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 55 x W 46 cm
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Brackie's Burn, Northumberland
George Mackley (1900–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 60 cm
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The Studio under the Eaves c.1903
Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Oil on canvas
H 55.2 x W 46 cm
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Kneeling Figure mid-20th C
F. E. McWilliam (1909–1992)
Bronze
H 23 x W 12.8 x D 12.4 cm
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Cordoba 1971
Denis Adeane Mitchell (1912–1993)
Bronze
H 15.6 x W 76.5 x D 6.8 cm
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Portrait of a Young Woman, Seated c.1915
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)
Oil on paper on board
H 75 x W 52.4 cm
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John Northcote Nash (1893–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 61 cm
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The Valley of the Palud, towards Sunset 1928
Herbert H. Newton (1881–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 76.2 cm
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1936 (white relief - second version) 1957
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Oil on carved board
H 64.4 x W 87.6 cm
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The Gate of Honour under Snow 1924
William Nicholson (1872–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 61.2 x W 51.4 cm
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Saturday Morning 1965
Kenneth Noland (1924–2010)
Acrylic resin on canvas
H 218 x W 218 cm
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Self Portrait 1924?
William Orpen (1878–1931)
Oil on panel
H 79.1 x W 64.8 cm
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Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924–2005)
Bronze
H 31.3 x W 20.3 x D 22.7 cm
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The Dog-Rose (La zarzarrosa) 1910–1911
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 265 x W 184 cm
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Cubist Head (Portrait of Fernande) c.1909/1910
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 53 cm
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Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 54.3 x W 65.1 cm
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The Chariot of Apollo 1907–1910
Odilon Redon (1840–1916)
Oil on panel
H 47.6 x W 29.9 cm
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Olive Trees, Cagnes 1913–1914
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
H 24.5 x W 45.2 cm
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Pastorale 1967
Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 127 x W 127 cm
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Camels c.1961
Larry Rivers (1923–2002)
Oil with collage on canvas
H 162.5 x W 129.5 cm
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Grande main crispée 1902–1913
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and Alexis Rudier
Bronze
H 46.3 x W 27.2 x D 24.6 cm
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Landscape with St George and the Dragon
Georges Rouault (1871–1958)
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
H 36 x W 26 cm
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Still Life with a View over a Cemetery
Ethel Sands (1873–1962)
Oil on board
H 45 x W 37.5 cm
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Near the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem c.1905–1906
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Oil on canvas
H 66.5 x W 97.7 cm
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The Trapeze 1920
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 64.7 x W 81 cm
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Circles and Moon 1950
Ralph Maynard Smith (1904–1964)
Oil on hardboard
H 34.9 x W 46.3 cm
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Painting, 116 x 81 cm, March 1958 1958
Pierre Soulages (1919–2022)
Oil on canvas
H 116 x W 81 cm
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Dorset Downs 1919
Gilbert Spencer (1892–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 40.9 x W 55.8 cm
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Self Portrait with Patricia Preece 1937
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.2 cm
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Sg III 103 1988
Jeffrey Steele (1931–2021)
Oil on canvas
H 152.3 x W 152.3 cm
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Hydrangeas 1901
Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 85.4 x W 112 cm
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Self Portrait 1919
William Strang (1859–1921)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 50.5 cm
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The Deposition 1946
Graham Vivian Sutherland (1903–1980)
Oil on millboard
H 152 x W 121.9 cm
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Mark Tobey (1890–1976)
Oil on board
H 111.5 x W 70.5 cm
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John Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
Oil on board
H 97 x W 71.5 cm
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Marguerite Chapin in Her Apartment with Her Dog 1910
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940)
Oil on millboard
H 59 x W 73.6 cm
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Bryan Wynter (1915–1975)
Oil on canvas
H 142.3 x W 111.8 cm
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