Albemarle Gallery

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Albemarle Gallery was an art gallery located in Mayfair, London. The gallery opened in 1986 and featured figurative to hyper-realist artwork by local and international contemporary painters and sculptors. This gallery closed in 1993.

History

In 1986, Mark Glazebrook, a private art dealer with an interest in modern British painting and drawing opened Albemarle Gallery on Piccadilly. [1] The gallery featured over 100 artists in its first three and a half years. [2] The gallery closed in 1993. Glazebrook died in 2009. [3]

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References

  1. Oliver, Steve (14 November 2009). "Mark Glazebrook - Boisterous figure in the art world who ran the Whitechapel Gallery for a time and promoted modern art at his Albemarle Gallery". The Times . Archived from the original on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  2. Golding, Paul (27 June 1990). "Bring the party to the artist - Galleries". The Times . Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  3. James Beechey (21 December 2009). "Mark Glazebrook obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2017.


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