BEAUX ARTS GALLERY
The Beaux Arts Gallery at 1 Bruton Place in the West End of London was opened in 1923 by Frederick Lessore (19 February 1879-14 November 1951), a portrait sculptor and brother-in-law of Walter Sickert (31 May 1860-22 January 1942). In January 1927, the Seven and Five Society of Artists held an exhibition there, and later that year John Christopher Wood (7 April 1901-21 August 1930) shared his first exhibition there with Ben Nicholson (10 April 1894-6 February 1982), which was followed by an exhibition of the work of Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903-20 May 1975) in 1928 and the gallery became noted for its avant-garde shows. From the death of Frederick Lessore in 1951, the gallery was run by his wife, the artist Helen Lessore (31 October 1907-6 May 1994) and under her management, many progressive and controversial artists of the 1950s and 1960s exhibited there including Ronald John Craigie Aitchison (13 January 1926-21 December 2009), Michael James Andrews (30 October 1928–19 July 1995), Frank Helmuth Auerbach (29 April 1931-11 November 2024), Francis Bacon (28 October 1909–28 April 1992), Leon Kossoff (10 December 1926-4 July 2019), Raymond Greig Mason (2 March 1922-13 February 2010) and Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932-31 August 2000). The Beaux Arts Gallery at 1 Bruton Place officially closed in 1965 but in 1994 Beaux Arts Gallery opened at 22 Cork Street, London a new creation this gallery has also closed. Suffolk artists who exhibited at Beaux Arts Gallery include Winifred Austen; Harry Becker; Jeffery Camp; John Arthur Dodgson; Reginald Grenville Eves; Cecil Arthur Hunt; Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick; Anthony Levett-Prinsep; Sidney Dennant Moss; David Muirhead; Malcolm Osborne; Ivor Roberts-Jones; Henry George Rushbury; Sir Walter Westley Russell; Christine Saumarez; Veronica Saumarez; Peggy Somerville; Allan Walton and Dennis Wirth-Miller.
Note: in 2025 there was a gallery at Beaux Arts Bath, 12-13 York Street, Bath
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