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Richard Saltoun Gallery It continues to support female artists through extensive research, partnerships and solo presentations at the gallery and online.

Founded in 2012 in London, Richard Saltoun Gallery specializes in Modern & Post-War art, with a focus on rediscovering the work of important yet under-recognized women artists through exhibitions, publications, events & participation in art fairs. It is guided by a strong focus on rediscovering the work of important yet under-recognised artists through presentations at its central location on Dover Street, a series of online exhibitions and participation in art fairs around the world. Since its inception, Richard Saltoun Gallery has been driven by an interest in serving a wider purpose and is now recognised for its critically and socially-engaged programme. In 2019, the gallery launched a year-long initiative titled 100% Women that aimed to address gender inequality in the art world and encourage wider industry action through debate, dialogue and collaboration. In 2021, it dedicates all exhibitions to the writings of German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt in a 12-month programme On Hannah Arendt to confront some of the most perplexing socio-political issues of our time. The gallery is considered a leader in its representation of female artists, from avant-garde pioneers of the 1960s and ‘70s, such as Eleanor ANTIN, Renate BERTLMANN and Gina PANE, to a younger generation of female artists including Silvia GIAMBRONE and Marinella SENATORE. Additionally, Richard Saltoun is noted for its support of pioneering artists who have pushed the conceptual and disciplinary boundaries in which they work, from LI Yuan-chia, one of the earliest proponents of abstract and conceptual art in Taiwan, to ULAY, the late photographer and performance artist, as well as British artists Victor BURGIN, Rose ENGLISH, John HILLIARD, Peter KENNARD, BOB LAW, Penny SLINGER and more. The gallery preserves the legacy of artists through its representation of artist estates, including Helen CHADWICK, David HALL, Alexis HUNTER, Bob LAW, Marinella PIRELLI, Jo SPENCE, Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA and Shelagh WAKELY, amongst others. The gallery acts as a consultant to major museums and public institutions and advises private and corporate collections. It actively documents the work of its artists through the production of publications and frequently stages talks, screenings and performances. Join our mailing list to keep updated on gallery news and events.

Find us at Frieze London, Booth C23Something The MatterHelen Chadwick & Cathy de Monchaux Thanks to everyone who has alr...
15/10/2026

Find us at Frieze London, Booth C23
Something The Matter
Helen Chadwick & Cathy de Monchaux

Thanks to everyone who has already visited 🥰

For Frieze Masters, we’re bringing Manina back to London for her first presentation since 1953. Austrian-Italian pioneer...
13/10/2026

For Frieze Masters, we’re bringing Manina back to London for her first presentation since 1953.

Austrian-Italian pioneering artist Manina (1918-2010) is one of the most distinctive post-war surrealists of generation. Celebrating her enduring legacy, the gallery presents rare works released from the estate exclusively for Frieze.

Find us at Booth S10
Frieze Masters
14 - 18 October

Image:
Erwin Blumenfeld, Portrait de Manina, c. 1938
© Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld.
© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.
GrandPalaisRmn / Georges Meguerditchian.

For Frieze London, we present Something The Matter, bringing together Helen Chadwick and Cathy de Monchaux.Chadwick’s li...
10/10/2026

For Frieze London, we present Something The Matter, bringing together Helen Chadwick and Cathy de Monchaux.

Chadwick’s life was tragically cut short in 1996 at the age of 42. This year marks the 30th anniversary of her death.

De Monchaux reflects on their friendship, which grew from exhibiting together around the world in the 90s:

“Our conversation was initially through our works’ juxtaposition, but it led to a great friendship and camaraderie. Meetings between our work and ourselves took on a global and exotic reach. Sydney, São Paulo, Rio, Buenos Aires, Helsinki and St Petersburg were the backdrop.

I was delighted when Richard Saltoun invited me to participate in this joint booth with Helen Chadwick’s Estate. Long may the conversation between our work last. I only wish she were here in person to be part of it.”

Find us at Booth C23
14 - 18 October

Artwork images:
1) Cathy de Monchaux, Mordant Rapture, 1999
2) Helen Chadwick, Birth of Barbie, 1993

Helen Chadwick and Cathy de Monchaux are included in The 90s: Art & Fashion at Tate Britain, curated by Edward Enninful,...
08/10/2026

Helen Chadwick and Cathy de Monchaux are included in The 90s: Art & Fashion at Tate Britain, curated by Edward Enninful, OBE.

The first image is ‘Nostalgie de la Boue’, which translates as a ‘desire for degradation and depravity’, where Helen Chadwick juxtaposes earthworms, the lowest form of life, with an imploding human scalp. The work consists of two vertically arranged lightboxes with Cibachrome transparencies, mounted on the wall.

The top image features an entwined ring of earth-worms in the shape of a flower, while the bottom, egg-shaped object shows the erosion of the cranium. The ‘brain’, represented by the scalp, is placed between the ‘bowels’, the earthworms, thus re-versing the normal order of things and questioning the hierarchies of life. As Chadwick states, ‘the
mind and body are constantly flipping over one another and will not settle down.’

We look forward to showing the two artists next week at Frieze London, for our dual presentation ‘Something The Matter’.

Opening next week in London!Reena Saini Kallat: Elsewhere is Already Here The first exhibition in London by Reena Kallat...
06/10/2026

Opening next week in London!
Reena Saini Kallat: Elsewhere is Already Here

The first exhibition in London by Reena Kallat, one of India’s foremost contemporary artists.

Join us for an in-conversation event with Reena Kallat and Emily Butler on Tuesday 13 October, 5-6pm. (RSVP in bio) The in-conversation will be followed by the opening reception from 6-8pm.

Artwork image:
Reena Kallat, Siamese Trees (Pine-iscus), 2018-2019

Visit us this weekend at Untitled Art, Houston! Our presentation unites visionary women artists: Leonora Carrington, Sof...
02/10/2026

Visit us this weekend at Untitled Art, Houston!

Our presentation unites visionary women artists: Leonora Carrington, Sofia Bassi and Cossette Zeno use metamorphic bodies, symbolic motifs and biomorphic forms to give shape to psychic and imagined worlds.

Bea Scaccia engages the uncanny and monstrous to destabilise body, identity and surface. Olga De Amaral and Romany Eveleigh broaden the dialogue from outside Surrealism through distinct approaches: de Amaral transforms fibre into works charged with spiritual and sensory resonance, while Eveleigh uses abstraction, gesture and mark-making to create spaces for contemplation.

Across these distinct practices, the metaphysical becomes a means of exploring transformation, resistance and self-invention.

Booth C1
Until 4 October

Looking forward to Untitled Art Houston opening tomorrow! Our presentation unites 6 visionary women artists whose practi...
30/09/2026

Looking forward to Untitled Art Houston opening tomorrow!

Our presentation unites 6 visionary women artists whose practices intersect through material, metaphysical and psychological experience: Bea Scaccia, Sofia Bassi, Cossette Zeno, Olga de Amaral, Romany Eveleigh and Leonora Carrington.

Rather than proposing a single surrealist lineage the presentation traces affinities between Surrealism’s twentieth-century avant-garde, its contemporary bastions, and pioneering artists beyond the movement who similarly investigate transformation, spirituality and worlds beyond the visible.

Artwork image:
Bea Scaccia, Somewhere_there is a starry night, 2025

Opening next Tuesday in Rome!: Madame Hirsch curated by Paola Ugolini An exhibition dedicated to the celebrated photogra...
28/09/2026

Opening next Tuesday in Rome!
: Madame Hirsch
curated by Paola Ugolini

An exhibition dedicated to the celebrated photographic series centred on the figure of Renate Hirsch Giacomuzzi, better known as Madame Hirsch.

Join us for the opening reception, Tuesday 6 October, 6-8pm
The exhibition will continue to 18 December.

Artwork image:
Brigitte Niedermair, 18.20, Mai, Venedig, Fenice, Zauberflöte, auf dem Weg [18.20 May, Venice, La Fenice, The Magic Flute, on the Way], 2004-2005

“Admittedly, there is a mind-boggling amount of spectacular art on display at the Breuer, particularly by late women art...
26/09/2026

“Admittedly, there is a mind-boggling amount of spectacular art on display at the Breuer, particularly by late women artists who were inadequately recognized in their lifetime. Take the paintings of Austrian-Italian Surrealist Manina at Richard Saltoun Gallery. A Dadaist muse, she began painting in the 1940s after meeting Frida Kahlo in Mexico, filling canvases with mythic visions of femininity that combine minutely applied brushstrokes against explosive color passages. She exhibited with Magritte at the Hugo Gallery in New York and even showed at the Venice Biennale in the ’60s, but Manina is far from a household name, in part because the tragic death of her only daughter left her without an estate, the gallery’s director Monica King explained.”

Thanks Valentina Di Liscia for shining a light on Manina in this piece for Hyperallergic 🙌

We’re booth 203 at Independent and there are just two days left to visit the fair!

Visit us at British Art Fair!Our stand presents works by pioneering artists Basil Alkazzi (), Dia al-Azzari (), Chila Bu...
24/09/2026

Visit us at British Art Fair!

Our stand presents works by pioneering artists Basil Alkazzi (), Dia al-Azzari (), Chila Burman (Chila Kumari Burman), Felicity Powell, Anne Saïd and Stella Snead (Stella Snead Archive), whose practices reflect the breadth of twentieth-century modernism. Expanding on traditional narratives of Modern British art, they reveal how the definition of ‘British’ has evolved to encompass diverse histories, perspectives and experiences.

Stand 5, Gallery 1
24 - 27 September
Saatchi Gallery, London

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