THE CONSTABLE TRUST
The Constable Trust is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Lecture

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Constable in France:
A Success Story

by Olivier Meslay
Senior Curator for European and American Art, Dallas Museum of Art
formerly Chief Curator at the Louvre

on Thursday 26 April 2012, at 6.30 for 7 pm
at the Constable Hall, Gandish Road, East Bergholt

Tickets are £12 (includes wine & canapés)

There is always a great demand for seats so please book early!

We have again this year kept the ticket price down but as the lecture is our main source of income, can you be generous and give us a separate voluntary donation in addition to the ticket price? If you are unable to attend the lecture a donation towards the work of the Constable Trust would be most welcome!

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Secretary, Penelope Hughes-Stanton, Honorary Secretary, The Constable Trust, North House, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex, CO11 1AS.
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Email: info@theconstabletrust.org.uk

Olivier Meslay, born in 1956, became Senior Curator for European and American Art and the Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator for European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art in September 2009. Before that date he was Chief Curator at the Louvre, in charge of the project of the new Louvre in Lens, northern France. From 1993 to 2006 he was in charge of British Art at the Paintings Department at the Louvre. He was also professor at the Ecole du Louvre, 1997-1999 and 2003-2006. The early years of his career were spent working for art dealers in Paris (1984-1991), before entering the Institut National du Patrimoine in 1992 and joining the Louvre in 1993.

He curated the exhibition British Art: D’outre Manche, British Art in French Public Collections, 1994, and co-curated the exhibition Constable, selected by Lucian Freud, 2002. He also curated British art in the collections of the French Academies’ museums, 2004, and more recently William Hogarth at
the Louvre, 2006-2007. He directed and launched two web sites on English and American art in French public collections (D’outre-Manche and Lafayette). He has written extensively on British Art and its relation with France.

In 2000 he received a fellowship from the Clark Art Institute for a year. He has been a member of the Council at the Attingham Trust and is on the scientific committee of the British Art Journal.

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