mini|hochkant|Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Plakat für die Ausstellung in den Londoner Grafton Galleries 1910. mini|John Lavery (1856–1941) Die Krocket Partie, 1893. Die Grafton Galleries war eine historisch bedeutsame, privat finanzierte Kunstgalerie in London, die von 1893 bis etwa 1930 existierte. Die Galerie wurde am 15. Januar 1893 in der Grafton Street 8 im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair eröffnet und zog 1896 in die Bond Street im Herzen des Londoner West End um. Die Räumlichkeiten bestanden aus vier miteinander verbundenen Sälen und galten als luxuriös, modern und gut beleuchtet, was die Grafton Galleries zu einem beliebten Ort im Zentrum des Londoner Kunstlebens machte.
Geschichte mini|The Long Gallery at the Grafton Galleries, aus: The Opening of the New Grafton Galleries, Graphic, 25. Februar 1893 Die Galerie wurde 1891 als Grafton Galleries Co Ltd gegründet, um Kunstwerke auszustellen und gleichzeitig als Veranstaltungsort für Konzerte, Empfänge und gesellschaftliche Anlässe zu dienen. Sie diente auch als Kunsthalle, in der zahlreiche Wechselausstellungen verschiedener Künstlervereinigungen stattfanden. So nutzten unter anderem die Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, die Royal Society of Portrait Painters, der Ridley Art Club, die Society of Miniaturists, die International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Graveurs (ISSPG) und der Women’s International Art Club (WIAC) die Räumlichkeiten der Galerie.
Die Grafton Galleries wurden durch bedeutende Ausstellungen bekannt. 1905 organisierte der Pariser Kunsthändler Paul Durand-Ruel hier die erste große Ausstellung impressionistischer Kunst in London. 1910 und 1912 organisierte der britische Kunstkritiker und Künstler Roger Fry die bahnbrechenden Post-Impressionismus-Ausstellungen, die Werke von Künstlern wie Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh (8 Gemälde), Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse und Pablo Picasso einem breiten Publikum vorstellten. Diese Ausstellungen erregten großes Aufsehen und kontroverse Reaktionen in der Londoner Kunstwelt und trugen wesentlich zum Ruhm der Grafton Galleries bei.
Zwischen 1916 und 1920 war die Galerie Schauplatz der jährlichen Ausstellungen der Allied Artists' Association (AAA), einer von Frank Rutter initiierten Vereinigung nach dem Vorbild der französischen Société des Artistes Indépendants, die auf dem Prinzip der juryfreien Ausstellung beruhte.
Zu den Künstlern, die dort Einzel- oder Gruppenausstellungen hatten, gehörten Frank Brangwyn, Christopher Nevinson, Ben Nicholson, Glyn Philpot, Frank Salisbury, John Singer Sargent, William Bruce Ellis Ranken, William Orpen, John Lavery, James Jebusa Shannon und Fiddes Watts.
Die Kunstausstellungen wurden von zum Teil sehr umfangreichen und aufwändig gestalteten Ausstellungskatalogen begleitet.
Die letzte Ausstellung fand 1930 statt. Danach wurde die Galerie geschlossen und das Gebäude in einen Jazzclub und ein Kabarett umgewandelt.
Ausstellungsliste 1893: Februar: First exhibition, consisting of paintings and sculpture, by British and foreign artists of the present day 1893: Mai: Second exhibition, consisting of the third exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters, by British and foreign artists of the present day mini|Paul Gauguin, Poèmes barbares, 1896. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts1893: November–Dezember: First exhibition of French artists in decorative art 1894: Fair women, loan exhibition of English portraits 1894: Fourth exhibition of Grafton Gallery, including a retrospective exhibition of work of Albert Moore, and a general collection of British and foreign works 1895: Winter exhibition of the works of old Scottish portrait painters, with a selection of the pictures of John Thomson of Duddingston and a collection of old Scottish silver and weapons 1895: Fair children, loan exhibition of English portraits 1896: Sixth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters 1896: Pictures representing the loss of Sir John Franklin's expedition to the North Pole, painted by Julius von Payer 1896: Januar–März: A loan collection of modern pictures, chiefly of the Barbizon and Dutch schools, with a collection of 200 original drawings by Paul Renouard and others 1896: April: Charles Sedelmeyer's fine art exhibition 1897: Exhibition of dramatic and musical art 1897: Society of Miniaturists exhibition 1897: Seventh exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters 1897: Sommerausstellung of members' work, Society of Miniaturists 1897: Januar: Exhibition of the works of Ford Madox Brown mini|Als ein Gemälde von El Greco, ausgestellt in den Grafton Galleries, London (1909–1910)1898: Catalogue of pictures which belong to 68, Princes Gate 1898: Collection of pictures by Old Masters formed by David Sellar 1898: The Gentlewoman photographic competition, exhibition of prize pictures 1898: Eighth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters 1898: April–Mai: Exhibition of Australian Art in London 1898: Juni: Bibliotheca Lindesiana, manuscripts and examples of metal and ivory bindings exhibited to the Bibliographical Society, from the Earl of Crawford's collection 1899: Siegfried Bing, 1838–1905 1899: Januar: Vasily Vereshchagin exhibition: Napoleon I, 1812, from a sketch made by an eye-witness 1899: Oktober–Dezember: Exhibition of modern French art, with a representative collection of the artistic work of Louis Tiffany, of New York 1900: Fourteenth exhibition of the Ridley Art Club 1900: Ninth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters 1900: Sommer: Exhibition of a special selection from the works by George Romney, including a few portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton by other artists mini|Alonso Sanchez Coello (1531 oder 1532–1588 zugeschrieben): Dame im Pelzmantel ca. 1577–1579. Pollok House, Glasgow1900: Dezember: Exhibition of a second selection from the works by George Romney, including a few portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton, by other artists 1901: Exhibition of South African pictures by R. Gwelo Goodman 1901: Exhibition of works by Willi Wolf Rudinoff (an alias of Wilhelm Morgenstern), including examples in oil, water-colour, etching, and dry point 1901: März–April: Women's International Art Club, second annual exhibition 1902: Exhibition of the works of Emil Fuchs 1902: Works by the late Archibald Stuart Wortley, founder and president of the Society of Portrait Painters 1902: Portraits by the late Benjamin Constant, and one hundred pencil studies by Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby 1902: März: Women's International Art Club, third annual exhibition 1902: November: Works by Emil Fuchs, the designer of the King Edward VII Coronation Medal and the King's head on the new postage stamps 1903: Januar: Women's International Art Club, fourth annual exhibition 1903: März: Modern Celtic ornament as applied to gold and silver plate, pewter, jewelry, carpets, garden pottery, sundials, etc. 1903: Mai: Bijoux et objets d'art exposés par M. René Lalique 1903: Mai–Juli: French masters exhibition 1904: Januar: Women's International Art Club, fifth annual exhibition 1904: Dezember: Women's International Art Club, sixth annual exhibition 1905: Januar–Februar: Pictures by Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, exhibited by Paul Durand-Ruel and Sons, from Paris 1905: Annual exhibition of the Society of Miniaturists 1905: März: Exhibition by Emil Fuchs 1905: Mai: Exhibition of a selection from the collection of the late James Staats Forbes, including a few works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Jean-François Millet, Jozef Israëls, Anton Mauve, one of the Maris brothers, and other artists 1905: Dezember: Women's International Art Club, seventh annual exhibition 1906: Munich fine art exhibition 1906: Januar: Eighth exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 1906: Juli: International Congress of Architects in London 1906: Dezember: Women's International Art Club, eighth annual exhibition 1907: Exhibition of paintings and sketches of the Polar regions by Aleksandr Borisov of St. Petersburg 1907: Exhibition of works by members of the Société des aquarellistes français and the Société des peintres de la marine 1907: November–Dezember: Special exhibition, United Arts Club 1908: Januar: Women's International Art Club, ninth annual exhibition 1908: Februar–März: Fourth exhibition of the United Arts Club 1908: April: Indian princes, Kew Gardens, Italian landscapes, and other pictures 1908: Mai–Juli: Exhibition of paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida 1908: Oktober–November: The Franco-British Art Association, joint exhibition of Frits Thaulow, Hippolyte Camille Delpy, Arsène Chabanian 1908: Dezember: Georges Petit of Paris, second annual London salon of original etchings 1908: Pictures and drawings in the National Loan Exhibition in aid of the National Gallery Funds 1910: April–Mai: Tenth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1910: Mai–Juni: Exhibition of Fair Women; International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers mini|Vincent van Gogh: Feld mit Schwertlilien bei Arles, 1888. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.1910: Manet and the Post-Impressionists 1911: April–Mai: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1911: Juni–Juli: A Century of Art, 1810–1910 1912: April–Mai: Twelfth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1912: Juni–Juli: Exhibition of Fair Children mini|Roger Fry: The Matisse Room, Zweite post-impressionistische Ausstellung in den Grafton Galleries, London, 19121912/13: November–Januar 1913: Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1913/14: Oktober–Juni: Old Spanish Masters 1914: Oktober–Dezember: Modern Spanish Art 1917: Juli–August: Canadian Battle Pictures (second exhibition) 1921: April–Mai: The Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; Twenty-seventh London Exhibition 1922: April–Mai: The Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; Twenty-eighth London Exhibition
Literatur Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of Spanish old masters in support of National Gallery funds and for the benefit of the Sociedad de Amigos del Arte Española, Oct. 1913 to Jan. 1914. Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (Hrsg.); The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Manet and the Post-Impressionists (Reprint). Forgotten Books, 2022. Catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the national loan exhibition, in aid of National Gallery funds : Held in the Grafton Galleries, London. Forgotten Books, 2022 Barrie Bullen: Post-Impressionists in England – The Critical Reception. Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford, 2024.
Weblinks Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of Spanish old masters in support of National Gallery funds and for the benefit of the Sociedad de Amigos del Arte Española, Oct. 1913 to Jan. 1914 ArtBlogs: Grafton Galleries The Frick Collection "Second Post-Impressionist Show" Anne Helmreich: The Socio-Geography of Art Dealers and Commercial Galleries in Early Twentieth-Century London exhibitionculture
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Kategorie:Kunsthalle Kategorie:Kunstausstellung Kategorie:Kunst (London) Kategorie:Impressionismus Kategorie:Museumsgründung 1891