D'OFFAY COUPER GALLERY
d'Offay Couper Gallery was launched by (Georges) Anthony d'Offay (1940-) when, at the age of 25, he opened his first gallery Anthony d'Offay Fine Art Gallery at 8 Vigo Street off Piccadilly, London in 1965. Four years later launched his new gallery the d'Offay Couper Gallery at 9 Dering Street, New Bond Street and had mostly historical exhibitions of early 20th century British art including Abstract Art in England 1913-1915. In the 1970s, he commenced showing contemporary art and the gallery is ofter referred to its original name as the Anthony d'Offay Gallery and in 1980 he opened an exhibition space for contemporary art on the first floor at 23 Dering Street and was run by Anthony d'Offay and his wife Anne Seymour (1941-), formerly a curator at Tate, with Marie-Louise Laband (1955-) who managed the gallery and exhibition programme. He closed the gallery in Dering Street, London, W1S 1AG in 2001, and worked on building a collection of over one thousand artworks. The collection, then valued more than £100 million, was donated jointly to the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate in 2008 with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, The Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments when Artist Rooms was founded. Suffolk artist exhibiters at Anthony d'Offay Gallery include Margaret Green.