The Walker is one of 12 venues across the UK participating in the National Treasures project as part of the National Gallery's 200th birthday celebrations.
Liverpool will be hosting ‘The Toilet of Venus’, an important work painted in the mid-17th century by Spanish master Diego Velázquez. Often called the ‘Rokeby Venus’, as it hung in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire in the 19th century, it is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. The Rokeby Venus has famously been attacked twice. It was slashed with a meat cleaver in 1914 by suffragette Mary Richardson, and last year was targeted by Just Stop Oil protesters, who smashed its protective glass.
Alongside Velázquez's masterpiece, the Walker's display includes The Spanish Gesture by Scottish artist Ethel Walker, who is celebrated as one of the earliest lesbian artists to openly express their sexuality in their paintings. There's also Rene Matić's Chiddy Doing Rene's Hair , which considers race, beauty, and gender as a performance, which is being displayed at the Walker for the first time.
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