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The Seven and Five Society was an art group of seven painters and five sculptors created in 1919 and based in London.

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The group was originally intended to encompass traditional, conservative artistic sensibilities. The first exhibition catalogue said, "[we] feel that there has of late been too much pioneering along too many lines in altogether too much of a hurry." Artist Ben Nicholson joined in 1924, followed Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and changed the society into a modernistic one and expelled the non-modernist artists. In 1935, the group was renamed the Seven and Five Abstract Group. At the Zwemmer Gallery in Charing Cross Road, London, they staged the first exhibition of entirely abstract works in Britain. [1]

Name

The first intention of the group was to include seven painters and five sculptors (‘VII and V’). This became ‘Seven & Five’ and, after a suggestion by Nicholson, simply '7 & 5'. [2]

Exhibitions

A list of the exhibitions held by the society: [3]

Members

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References

  1. "Seven and Five Society", tate.org.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. Causey 2008.
  3. "Business papers of the 7 & 5 Society". archiveshub.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. "7&5. The Seven and Five Society the Fine Art Society - PDF Free Download".

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