BLOOMSBURY GALLERY
The first notice of the Bloomsbury Gallery at 34 Bloomsbury Street, London is an exhibition of the works of M. Alexandre Troin (1893–1978) of Favière near Toulon in September 1929 when the gallery was described at 'new' with the director a Miss Joan Cross Druce (1889-1996). Joan Druce married in 1932 Stanislas Frydman Osiakovski (1894-1972) and they ran The Bloomsbury Gallery in 34 Bloomsbury Street, which specialised in then unknown, artists whose works they exhibited. Mary Potter had her first solo exhibition at the gallery in 1931 and the following year the works of Asphodel Fleischmann (1910–1981) were being exhibited. In 1938 the gallery is recorded at 24 South Molton Street, Mayfair with an exhibition of the works of Theophile Lucifer Gardini who changed his name in 1953 to Baron Avro Manhattan (1914-1990). This gallery does not seem to have survived the Second World War.