Bloomsbury Gallery

A little-known gallery which opened in 1929 at 34 Bloomsbury Street, London, with an exhibition of the works of M. Alexandre Troin (1893–1978) of Favière near Toulon. The gallery was listed as 'new' under the ownership of Miss Joan Cross Druce (1889-1996). Joan Druce married in 1932 Stanislas Frydman Osiakovski (1894-1972), and they ran The Bloomsbury Gallery, which specialised in then-unknown artists. Mary Potter had her first solo exhibition at the gallery in 1931, and the following year, the works of Asphodel Fleischmann were exhibited. In 1938, the gallery is recorded as being based at 24 South Molton Street, Mayfair, with an exhibition of the works of Theophile Lucifer Gardini, who changed his name in 1953 to Baron Avro Manhattan (1914-1990). This gallery does not seem to have survived World War II.

Other than little-known artists, those who exhibited there included William Townsend, Julian Trevelyan, Edward Ardizzone, Cecil Collins, and Roger Hilton.