The Mayor Gallery

Founded by Frederic Mayor (1903-1973) in 1925, The Mayor Gallery has exhibited many artists for the first time in England such as Bacon, Calder, Ernst, Klee, Masson and Miró.

It has been the centre of Unit One, a group that included Hepworth, Moore, Nash and Nicholson amongst others. Fred’s son, James Mayor, took over the gallery in 1973 and the gallery has shown the work of many leading American artists ever since amongst whom Hesse, Lichtenstein, Martin, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Ryman, Twombly, Warhol and Wesselman have had solo exhibitions.

The Mayor Gallery continues to show the works of Surrealists and dada artists, British and American Pop, European Nouveau Réalisme and is now also internationally renowned for being London’s foremost gallery in Zero and Concrete movements.

The gallery usually presents 6 to 8 curated exhibitions each year and participates regularly in the art fairs at TEFAF, TEFAF NY, ArtBasel and Frieze Masters.

It values its close and long lasting relationships with collectors and institutions, and placed recently paintings, works on paper and sculptures at the British Museum, Centre Pompidou, IVAM Valencia, Kunst Museum Basel, Museum Boijmans Rotterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tate Britain and Tate Modern amongst others.