The Mayor Gallery
The Mayor Gallery was the first gallery to open its doors in Cork Street. Founded by Fred Mayor (1903-1973) in 1925, many artists exhibited for the first time in England at the Mayor Gallery and included, amongst others, Bacon, Calder, Ernst, Klee, Masson and Miro. The Mayor Gallery was also the centre of UNIT ONE, a group that included Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and others. Fred’s son, James Mayor, took over the Gallery in 1973 and since then the Mayor Gallery has shown the work of many leading American artists. They include: Hesse, Lichtenstein, Martin, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Ryman, Twombly, Warhol and Wesselmann. The Gallery continues to show the works of leading American Pop artists as well as European Nouveau Realism, Surrealist and Dada but is now internationally renown for being London's foremost Gallery for the ZERO and Concrete movements.
Recent solo exhibitions include Billy Apple, Imre Bak, Carlos Cairoli, Peter Dreher, S. Filko, R. Girke, G. Jovanovics,
Taadaki Kuwayama, François Morellet, Julian Stanczak, Shinkichi Tajiri and Carel Visser.
The Mayor Gallery participates in PAN Amsterdam, TEFAF NL, TEFAF NY, ArtBasel and Frieze Masters with
carefully curated stands, either encompassing the international Post-War program or focusing on solo
presentations such as Dekkers, Fangor, Loewensberg and Tajiri.
The gallery regularly lend artworks to institutions such as Centre Pompidou, MET NY, Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt, Stedelijk Museum, Reina Sofia, Picasso Museum Barcelona and Tate Modern.
The Mayor Gallery values its close and lasting relationships with collectors and institutions; recent museums
acquisitions went to Museum Boijmans Rotterdam (R. Penrose), British Museum London, Kunst Museum Basel
(M. Moss), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (M. Moss) Tate (R. Mallary, S. Tajiri), Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar (F.
Morellet).
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