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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Kettle’s Yard will be closed on Thursday 12 March.

Kettle’s Yard will be open on Good Friday (Friday 3 April) and closed on Easter Sunday (Sunday 5 April).

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Kettle’s Yard will be closed on Thursday 12 March.

Kettle’s Yard will be open on Good Friday (Friday 3 April) and closed on Easter Sunday (Sunday 5 April).

Edmond Xavier Kapp

Born 1890 – Died 1978

Kapp was a Cambridge-educated portrait artist and caricaturist. During the Second World War he served on the Western Front and was an official war artist (1940–41). In 1946–47 he was artist to UNESCO. He is the only painter to have had Picasso sit for a portrait.