BEAUX ARTS GALLERY
The Beaux Arts Gallery at 1 Bruton Place in the West End of London was opened in 1923 by Frederick Lessore (1879-1951), a portrait sculptor and brother-in-law of Walter Sickert (1860-1942). In January 1927, the Seven and Five Society of Artists held an exhibition there, and later that year John Christopher Wood (1901-1930) shared his first exhibition there with Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), which was followed by an exhibition of the work of Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) 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 (1907-1994) and under her management, many progressive and controversial artists of the 1950s and 1960s exhibited there including Ronald John Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009), Michael James Andrews (1928-1995), Frank Helmuth Auerbach (1931-), Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Leon Kossoff (1926-2019), Raymond Greig Mason (1922-2010) and Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (1932-2000). In 1994 the Beaux Arts Gallery opened at 22 Cork Street, London but may have been 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.
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