Gimpel fils
Gimpel Fils is a London art gallery founded by the brothers Peter and Charles Gimpel (nephews of Lord Duveen) on 26 November 1946 in honour of their father, the art dealer and collector, René Gimpel, who himself was the son of a Parisian art dealer and an acquaintance of Marcel Proust. [1] Since 1972, it has been located at 30 Davies Street in Westminster just off Grosvenor Square. The first exhibition, ‘Five Centuries of French painting’ formed a small part of René Gimpel’s collection that he sent to England before the war, the bulk being lost in Paris, which included work by Degas, Monet and Camille Pissarro.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the gallery established a reputation for supporting innovative upcoming young artists. For example, during this period the gallery became closely associated with the avant-garde, exhibiting Lynn Chadwick, Anthony Caro, Peter Lanyon, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Louis le Brocquy, Robert Adams, from the beginning of their careers, alongside works by Larry Rivers, Marcel Duchamp and Yves Klein. Its exhibition programme included Sam Francis 1957, the first London exhibition of Larry Rivers in 1962, Marcel Duchamp 1965, Alexander Calder 1969 and Willem de Kooning 1976. Other artists included Pierre Soulages, Marie Laurencin, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Nicolas de Stael and Yves Klein. The gallery underwent a major refurbishment in 2000.[2]
"No gallery did as much, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, to put contemporary British artists, notably those of the St Ives school, the abstract painters of the Ecole de Paris and, to a lesser extent, rising American painters on the map."[3]
Today, the gallery continues to support contemporary art and new artists, with Gimpel Fils exhibiting the work of Lucy Stein, Hannah Maybank and Corinne Day as well as Albert Irvin, and Alan Davie. [4]
The gallery has published exhibition catalogues for many of the artists it has featured over the years, [5] as well as offering for sale works by some of the most prominent British artists of the last half century including works by Barbara Hepworth, Tracey Emin and Anthony Caro.[6]
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[edit] Artists who have been exhibited
- Robert Adams 1917-1984, UK
- Karel Appel 1921-2006, NL
- Art in Ruins Founded 1984 UK
- Donald Baechler 1956, US
- Harry Bertoia 1915-1978, IT
- Sandra Blow 1925-2006, UK
- Norman Bluhm 1920-1999, US
- Mel Bochner 1940, US
- Louis le Brocquy 1916, IE
- Reg Butler 1913-1981, UK
- Miriam Cahn 1949, CH
- Alexander Calder 1898-1976, US
- Jonathan Callan 1961, UK
- Anthony Caro 1924, UK
- Corinne Day 1965
- Jim Dine 1935, US
- Jiri Dokoupil 1954, CZ
- Andrea Fisher 1955-1997, US
- Douglas Gordon 1966, UK
- Donald Hamilton Fraser 1929, UK
- Donald Judd 1928-1994, US
- Mike Kelley 1954, US
- Peter Kennard 1949, UK
- Martin Kippenberger 1953-1997, DE
- Michael Landy 1963, UK
- Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, UK
- Piero Manzoni 1933-1963, IT
- Hannah Maybank 1974, UK
- Bernard Meadows 1915-2005, UK
- Bruce Nauman 1941, US
- Claes Oldenburg 1929, SE
- Gabriel Orozco 1962, MX
- Tony Oursler 1957, US
- Mimmo Paladino 1948, IT
- Florence Paradeis 1954, FR
- Man Ray 1890-1976, US
- Gerhard Richter 1932, DE
- Larry Rivers 1923-2002, US
- Niki de Saint Phalle 1930-2002, FR
William Scott 1913-1989
- Andrés Serrano 1950, US
- Lucy Stein 1979, UK
- Haim Steinbach 1944, IL
- James Tower 1918-1988, UK
- Jenny Watson 1951, AU
- Rachel Whiteread 1963, UK
- Edwin Zwakman 1969, NL [7]
[edit] Publications
- René Gimpel, Diary of an Art Dealer, 1966
