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Gallery One
[edit]In 1953 Victor Musgrave established Gallery One with only 5pounds of capital[1]. The experimental space was open for short 10 years, closing in 1963. It was a home for far from artistic mainsteam artists[2]. Among the most important exhibitions was Seven Indian Painters in Europe (1958)[3].
Location
[edit]The gallery was origially located in Litchfield Sreet, London. In 1956, it moved to 20 D'Arblay Street closer to the bahemian Soho. Finally, North Audley Street in Mayfair was the last location of the gallery.
Exhibitions
[edit]First solo exhibitions of F N Souza (1955) and Bridget Riley (1962).
Yves Klein has presented monochromes for the first time here in 1957.
References
[edit]- ^ "South Asian Modernists and the London Gallerist Who Championed Them". frieze.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ "You saw it here first | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ "South Asian Modernists 1953-63 | Whitworth Art Gallery". www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
Further reading
[edit]- Susan Bean, Midnight to the Boom: Paintng in India after Independence (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012)
- Rebecca M. Brown, Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (North Crolina: Duke University Press, 2009)
- Iftikhar Dadi et al, Anwar Jalal Shemza (London: Ridinghouse, 2015)
- Clare Freestone, "Nirvana in London - The coinciding worlds of F.N. Souza and Ida Kar" in Ida Kar: Portraits of F.N. Souza (Grosvenor/Vadhera Gallery, 2011)
- Sonal Khullar, Wordly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity and Modernists in India 1930-1990 (California:University of California Press, 2015)
- Partha Mitter, The Trimph of Modernism: India's artists and the avant-garde 1922-1947 (London: Reaktion books, 2007)