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Phone
  
+44 20 7493 2488

London borough
  
City of Westminster

Address
  
30 Davies St, Mayfair, London W1K 4NB, UK

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–5:30PMTuesday10AM–5:30PMWednesday10AM–5:30PMThursday10AM–5:30PMFriday10AM–5:30PMSaturday11AM–4PMSundayClosedMonday10AM–5:30PM

Founded
  
November 1946, London, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Camden Arts Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Tate, Fine Art Society

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Gimpel Fils is a London art gallery based at 30 Davies Street in Westminster just off Grosvenor Square. The gallery was founded by Charles and Peter Gimpel, sons of the celebrated Parisian art dealer, René Gimpel, author of the Diary of an Art Dealer. Throughout its history it has maintained a commitment to contemporary British and International art.

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History

Gimpel Fils was founded in November 1946. The first exhibition, Five Centuries of French Painting, was based on the small part of René Gimpel's collection that had been sent to London before the Second World War. The bulk of his stock was lost in Paris.

During the 1950s and 60s Gimpel Fils was highly influential in its association with the avant-garde. It supported modern British artists, including those of the St Ives School, as well as rising American artists and French abstract painters of the School of Paris. Gimpel Fils represented many of the major artists of the time, including Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. Nicholson moved to Gimpel Fils from the Lefevre Gallery and stayed until the early 1960s. In supporting the next generation of artists emerging in this period it gave first exhibitions to Lynn Chadwick, Anthony Caro, Peter Lanyon and Alan Davie, while also being associated with a number of other British artists, including Louis le Brocquy, Ivon Hitchens, Gillian Ayres, Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Robert Adams. From France Gimpel Fils represented the likes of Marie Laurencin, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff and Yves Klein, as well as working with American artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis and Larry Rivers, who had his first London exhibition at the gallery in 1962. An obituary of Peter Gimpel in The Independent newspaper suggested that: "Despite the rise of Marlborough Fine Art and stiff competition from the likes of the Redfern, Waddington and Hanover galleries, Gimpel Fils was for a time unrivaled in the range and quality of its artists."

The gallery continues to promote the work of that generation of artists, supporting the work of senior British painters such as Alan Davie and Albert Irvin, while also presenting retrospectives of 20th-century modern art. The contemporary programme has widened the range of work shown by the gallery and has developed to include artists such as Corinne Day, Andres Serrano, Callum Morton and Hannah Maybank.

Gimpel Fils was initially based, briefly, at 86 Duke Street, London, before moving to 50 South Molton Street, where the artist Louis Le Brocquy laid a mosaic in the entrance. It relocated to its present premises at 30 Davies Street in 1972. The gallery was refurbished in 2000. The refurbishment was inaugurated with an installation by Richard Wilson.

The Gimpel family retained a strong interest in the running of the gallery. The current co-director is René Gimpel, son of Charles and a fourth generation of the Gimpel family to become an art dealer.

Gimpel Fils Artists

Robert Adams 1917-1984, UKKarel Appel 1921-2006, NLArt in Ruins Founded 1984 UKDonald Baechler 1956, USHarry Bertoia 1915-1978, ITSandra Blow 1925-2006, UKNorman Bluhm 1920-1999, USMel Bochner 1940, USLouis le Brocquy 1916, IEReg Butler 1913-1981, UKMiriam Cahn 1949, CHAlexander Calder 1898-1976, USJonathan Callan 1961, UKAnthony Caro 1924, UKCorinne Day 1965Jim Dine 1935, USJiri Dokoupil 1954, CZAndrea Fisher 1955-1997, USSam Francis 1923-1994, USDonald Hamilton Fraser 1929–2009, UKDouglas Gordon 1966, UKDonald Hamilton Fraser 1929, UKAlbert Irvin 1922, UKDonald Judd 1928-1994, USMike Kelley 1954, USPeter Kennard 1949, UKMartin Kippenberger 1953-1997, DEMichael Landy 1963, UKPeter Lanyon 1918-1964, UKPiero Manzoni 1933-1963, ITHannah Maybank 1974, UKBernard Meadows 1915-2005, UKBruce Nauman 1941, USClaes Oldenburg 1929, SEGabriel Orozco 1962, MXTony Oursler 1957, USMimmo Paladino 1948, ITFlorence Paradeis 1954, FRTadeusz Potworowski 1949, PLMan Ray 1890-1976, USGerhard Richter 1932, DELarry Rivers 1923-2002, USNiki de Saint Phalle 1930-2002, FRWilliam Scott 1913-1989Andrés Serrano 1950, USLucy Stein 1979, UKHaim Steinbach 1944, ILJames Tower 1918-1988, UKJenny Watson 1951, AURachel Whiteread 1963, UKEdwin Zwakman 1969, NL

References

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