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Beaux Arts Gallery

Beaux Arts Gallery is a gallery.

About Beaux Arts Gallery

Beaux Arts Gallery was a gallery at 1 Bruton Place, London, England. It was known as a preeminent center for promoting avant-garde art until its closure in 1965.

Founded and operated by portrait sculptor Frederick Lessore in 1923, the gallery was run by his wife Helen Lessore, a painter, until it closed following her death. Prominent exhibitions at the gallery included the first solo exhibition by Christopher Wood; one of the first exhibitions by Barbara Hepworth and her husband John Skeaping, and the first solo exhibitions by Sheila Fell, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. Solo exhibitions of Reginald Fairfax Wells sculpture and pottery.

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Artworks shown from Beaux Arts Gallery are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.