03 — ARTWORK
Grafton Gallery
GRASSET, Eugène-Samuel · 1893 →
- MEDIUM
- Poster
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Grasset's numerous posters include Librairie romantique (1887), L'Encre Marquet (1892), Grafton Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen)., London (1893) and the series of ten decorative panels produced in 1897.
The Grafton Galleries, often referred to as the Grafton Gallery, was an art gallery in Mayfair, London. It was opened in 1893 and dissolved c. 1930. It housed several celebrated exhibitions: the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel showed the first major exhibition in Britain of Impressionist paintings (1905); Roger Fry's held two famous exhibitions of Post-Impressionist works (1910 and 1912).
The picture shows the poster created for an exhibition of French decorative art at the Grafton Galleries in 1893.
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title = {Grafton Gallery by GRASSET, Eugène-Samuel},
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date = {2026-09-09},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
