Catalogue for the Gallery's November 1929 exhibition of works by the East London Group, "including works by W.R. Sickert, A.R.A."
The Lefevre Gallery (or The Lefevre Galleries) was an art gallery in London, England, operated by Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd.[1]
The gallery was opened at 1a, King Street, St James's,[2] in 1926, when rival art dealers Alexander Reid and Ernest Lefevre joined forces.[3]
Upon Reid's death in 1928, his son, A J McNeill Reid succeeded him. Lefevre resigned in 1931.[3]
In 1950, the gallery relocated to premises at 30, Bruton Street, Mayfair.[3][4]
Among artists whose first British solo exhibitions were hosted by the gallery were Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, André Derain, L. S. Lowry, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Rousseau, Gregorio Prieto[5] and Georges Seurat,[3] It also held the first London exhibitions for Bernard Buffet, Balthus and René Magritte.[3] Others who exhibited there included Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud,[3] Walter Sickert, Wyndham Lewis, and the East London Group.
The gallery closed in 2002, citing competition from auction houses, changes in tax on works imported from outside the European Union, and the introduction of droit de suite (royalties paid to artists when their work is sold).[3] The name lives on as 'Lefevre Fine Art' founded the same year.[6]
^"Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd". Archives Directory for the History of Collecting. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^51°30′25″N0°08′12″W / 51.50684°N 0.13656°W / 51.50684; -0.13656 (1a, King Street)
^ abcdefgGleadell, Colin (12 January 2002). "London out of the picture as gallery closes". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
November – LefevreGallery, London 1993, June – LefevreGallery, London (Drawings from the 1920s and 1930s) 1994, December – LefevreGallery, London (The...
lifetime, at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and at the LefevreGallery. She represented Britain at the Venice Biennale four times, in 1922...
and Drawings, Alex Reid and LefevreGallery, London 1946 Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Alex Reid and LefevreGallery, London 1948 Keith Vaughan:...
London at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Warren Gallery, Maddox Street, in 1928 and the LefevreGallery, King Street, in 1936. Some of the paintings were...
Painter's Room on display at Freud's first solo exhibition in 1944 at the LefevreGallery. In the summer of 1946, he travelled to Paris before continuing to...
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simultaneously." Three Studies was first shown at a joint exhibition at the LefevreGallery, London, in April 1945, alongside work by Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland...
1945 or 1946. Study for Man with Microphones (1946) was shown at the LefevreGallery (British Painters Past and Present July–August 1946), and at the Anglo-French...
hard-pressed workers". Going To The Match (1953) was first exhibited at the LefevreGallery in October 1953, where it received critical acclaim. In June 1959,...
servant before becoming an art dealer and then director of London's LefevreGallery. Clotilde Brewster von Hildebrand, her mother, was an artist. Her younger...
to Suzanne Valadon, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 1956, The LefevreGallery, London 1959, Galerie Pétridès, Paris 1962, Galerie Pétridès, Paris...
dealer in Glasgow with Alex Reid & Lefevre before moving three years later to London to be based at the LefevreGallery. In Glasgow and London he met many...
students of the East London Group, and exhibited alongside them at The LefevreGallery in November 1929. Sickert made his last etching in 1929. Sickert was...
sinister landscape. Kelly's first one-man show was in 1943 at the LefevreGallery. This was a success. Herbert Read, the writer and art critic, bought...
Industrial Landscape (1953) was purchased from the LefevreGallery in 1988 by Salford Museum and Art Gallery with support from the Victoria and Albert Museum...
her work at the LefevreGallery. In 1954, she was invited to take part in the exhibition Figures in their Setting at the Tate Gallery. She was invited...
Chagall and Ossip Zadkine. In the 1960s, Fischer exhibited at the LefevreGallery in London, where the Italian painter Modigliani held his last one man...
the LefevreGallery in 1938. Her works are in a number of collections, including those of Beecroft Art Gallery, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham...
that of MacBryde, the work of Colquhoun was regularly shown at the LefevreGallery in London. At the height of their acclaim they courted a large circle...
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