The Art of Bedlam
Our exhibition of Dadd’s work, the most ambitious in decades, will tell his extraordinary story of genius, psychosis and eventual philosophical resignation to his fate. It will bring together some of the artist’s most brilliant works, including his masterpiece, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, generously lent by Tate. Other highlights will include Dadd’s series of Illustrations of the Passions, his own protracted interpretation – witty, strange and touching in turn – of the causes of insanity.
Bacchanalian Scene (1862), Richard Dadd. Private Collection
The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke (c. 1855–64), Richard Dadd. Tate
Wandering Musicians (c. 1878), Richard Dadd. Tate
Portrait of a Young Man (1853), Richard Dadd. Tate
The Artist’s Halt in the Desert (c. 1845), Richard Dadd. British Museum
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