Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Plakat für die Ausstellung in den Londoner Grafton Galleries 1910.John Lavery (1856–1941) DieKrocket Partie, 1893.
DieGrafton Galleries war eine historisch bedeutsame, privat finanzierte Kunstgalerie inLondon, die von 1893 bis etwa 1930 existierte. Die Galerie wurde am 15. Januar 1893 in der Grafton Street 8 im Londoner StadtteilMayfair eröffnet und zog 1896 in dieBond 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.[1]
The Long Gallery at the Grafton Galleries, aus: The Opening of the New Grafton Galleries,Graphic, 25. Februar 1893
Die Galerie wurde 1891 alsGrafton 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.[2] So nutzten unter anderem dieArts and Crafts Exhibition Society, dieRoyal Society of Portrait Painters, der Ridley Art Club,[3] die Society of Miniaturists, dieInternational Society of Sculptors, Painters and Graveurs (ISSPG) und derWomen’s International Art Club (WIAC) die Räumlichkeiten der Galerie.
Die Grafton Galleries wurden durch bedeutende Ausstellungen bekannt. 1905 organisierte der Pariser KunsthändlerPaul Durand-Ruel hier die erste große Ausstellung impressionistischer Kunst in London. 1910 und 1912 organisierte der britische Kunstkritiker und KünstlerRoger Fry die bahnbrechendenPost-Impressionismus-Ausstellungen, die Werke von Künstlern wiePaul Cézanne,Vincent van Gogh (8 Gemälde),[4]Paul Gauguin,Henri Matisse undPablo 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.
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
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 ofJohn 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 byJulius von Payer
1896: Januar–März: A loan collection of modern pictures, chiefly of theBarbizon and Dutch schools, with a collection of 200 original drawings byPaul 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
Als ein Gemälde vonEl 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: 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 ofLouis 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 byGeorge Romney, including a few portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton by other artists
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
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
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
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.
↑Anne Helmreich:The Socio-Geography of Art Dealers and Commercial Galleries in Early Twentieth-Century London. In:The Camden Town Group in Context. Tate, 2012,ISBN 978-1-84976-385-1 (org.uk [abgerufen am 27. Oktober 2024]).
↑Grafton Galleries (London, England):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. London, 1913 (archive.org [abgerufen am 27. Oktober 2024]).
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