Claudette Johnson: striking and beautiful – but untouched by greatness

• According to the Courtauld, this new show of mostly recent work by Claudette Johnson is a big deal. Despite exhibiting during the 1980s and ’90s (including, in 1985, at London’s ICA), Johnson, it argues, has been marginalised, as a “Black feminist artist”, within accounts of contemporary British art. So, by presenting her pictures beside the “Great Room”, festooned with masterpieces by the likes of Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin (several of which, she says, “are almost part of my DNA”), the gall