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Artists shown
Nobuya Abe
Japanese, 1913-1971
Giovanni Anceschi
Italian, b. 1939
Marina Apollonio
Italian, b. 1940
Billy Apple
New Zealander, 1935-2021
Bernard Aubertin
French, b. 1934
Davide Boriani
Italian, b. 1936
Emmy Bridgwater
British, b. 1900
Carlos Cairoli
Argentine, Argentinian, b. 1926
Rafael Canogar
Spaniard, Spanish citizen, b. 1935
Leonora Carrington
British, 1917-2011
Miguel Chevalier
Mexican, b. 1959
Waldemar Cordeiro
Brazilian, 1925-1973
Analivia Cordeiro
Brazilian, 1971-1971
Dadamaino
Italian, 1930-2004
Hugo Demarco
Argentine, Argentinian, 1932-1995
Gabriele Devecchi
Italian, b. 1938
Lucia Di Luciano
Italian, b. 1933
Sue Dunkley
British, 1900-1999
Paul Eluard
French, 1895-1952
Max Ernst
German, 1891-1976
Roy Ferdinand
American, 1959-2004
Enea Ferrari
Italian, 1908-1982
Raimund Girke
German, 1930-2002
Gerhard von Graevenitz
1934-1983
Grey Organisation
British
Jan Henderikse
Dutch, b. 1937
Valentine Hugo
French, 1890-1968
Attila Kovács
Hungarian, b. 1951
Tadaaki Kuwayama
Japanese, b. 1932
Wifredo Lam
Cuban, 1902-1982
Julio Le Parc
Argentine, Argentinian, b. 1928
Liliane Lijn
American, b. 1939
René Magritte
Belgian, 1898-1967
Robert Mallary
American, b. 1917
Roberto Matta
Chilean, 1911-2002
Joan Miró
Spaniard, Spanish citizen, 1893-1983
Aiko Miyawaki
Japanese, b. 1929
Vera Molnar
Hungarian, b. 1924
François Morellet
French, 1926-2016
Marlow Moss
British, 1890-1958
Rakuko Naito
Japanese, b. 1935
Roman Opałka
Polish, 1931-2011
Roland Penrose
British, 1900-1984
Pablo Picasso
Spaniard, Spanish citizen, 1881-1973
Kurt Seligmann
American, 1900-1962
Turi Simeti
Italian, b. 1929
Julian Stanczak
American, 1928-2017
Klaus Staudt
b. 1932
Peter Struycken
Dutch, b. 1939
Shinkichi Tajiri
American, 1923-2009
Yves Tanguy
French, 1900-1955
Dorothea Tanning
American, 1910-2012
Luis Tomasello
Argentine, Argentinian, 1915-2014
Grazia Varisco
Italian, b. 1937
Andy Warhol
American, 1928-1987
About
Since its foundation by Fred Mayor in 1925, it has promoted modern and contemporary art. Since the early 1970s, under the new impulse given by James Mayor, Fred Mayor's son, the Gallery started to focus actively on the work of contemporary American artists from the Pop art movement but also Conceptual art and Abstract expressionism such as Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. More recently, taking further its interest for Minimal art and Dada, the Gallery has been promoting artists of the international Zero (art) movement, including Heinz Mack, Otto Piene amongst others.
The Mayor Gallery opened in 1925 at 37 Sackville Street. The gallery closed in 1926, and reopened in 1933 at 18 Cork Street, in an area regarded as the historic art district of London. Many overseas artists were exhibited for the very first time in England at the Mayor Gallery including major ones such as Alexander Calder and Paul Klee. In its early years the Mayor Gallery was also instrumental to the creation of Unit One, a British group formed by the painter Paul Nash in 1933 with fellow artists Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Edward Wadsworth, Edward Burra and others to promote Modern art, architecture and design.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Downpour
Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street
until 24 May
In the Mood for Love: Hockney in London, 1960–1963
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
until 18 Jul
Antony Gormley: WITNESS
White Cube, Mason’s Yard
until 8 Jun
Peter Saul
Saatchi Yates
until 9 Jun
Marie Harnett: Were you dreaming?
Cristea Roberts Gallery
until 8 Jun
Michaela Yearwood-Dan: No Time For Despair
Hauser & Wirth London
until 2 Aug
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
Royal Academy Of Arts
until 29 Jun
Maurizio Cattelan
Gagosian, Burlington Arcade
until 24 May
Anna Perach: A Leap of Sympathy
Richard Saltoun
until 24 Jun
David Salle: Some Versions of Pastoral
Thaddaeus Ropac
until 8 Jun
Alison Watt
Lévy Gorvy Dayan
until 8 Jun
Move Baby, Move
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row
until 28 Jun
Michael Kidner, from Rothko to Riley
Flowers, Cork Street
until 31 May
Jonathan Lasker: Pictures for Happy Existentialists
Timothy Taylor
until 8 Jun
The Shape of Colour
Waddington Custot
until 29 May
Rose Wylie: When Found becomes Given
David Zwirner
until 23 May
Bona de Mandiargues
Alison Jacques
until 28 Jun