The Mayor Gallery

The Mayor Gallery was the first to open its doors in the renowned Cork Street, London. Founded by Fred Mayor (1903-1973) in 1925, many artists exhibited there for the first time in England including, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Juan Miró and Eduardo Paolozzi. 

Fred’s son, James Mayor took over in 1973 at 23, having set up the Post-war and Contemporary Art department in Sotheby’s New York in 1970 and has shown many leading American artists first commercial shows in England including Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

Today The Mayor Gallery is renowned for being London’s foremost gallery for exhibiting artists from the Zero and Concrete movements, mostly from Western and Central Europe and Latin America, particularly early artworks from the 1950s and 60s. The gallery continues to offer works of leading American Pop artists as well as Dada, Surrealism and European Nouveau Realism.