In recent decades, Waddington Custot has cemented its reputation for high quality and well-researched exhibitions of significant artists. Today the gallery represents heavyweight contemporary and modern artists and their estates including Kenia Almaraz Murillo, Peter Blake, David Annesley, Patrick Caulfield, Allan D’Arcangelo, Yves Dana, Ian Davenport, Paul Feeley, Barry Flanagan, Pablo Reinoso, Sophia Vari, Fabienne Verdier and Bernar Venet. The gallery's inventory includes works by important modern artists including Josef Albers, Chu Teh-Chun, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, Fausto Melotti, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, artists from the Nabi group, and the American Photorealist painters including Robert Cottingham, Richard Estes and Ralph Goings.
Our History
The Waddington Galleries was founded in 1958 by Victor Waddington, a venerable Dublin art dealer, with his son Leslie. The gallery opened in March of that year at 2 Cork Street, in the heart of London's Mayfair, with an exhibition of late works by Jack B. Yeats, who Victor Waddington had represented in Ireland. Through the years, the gallery would become preeminent in Cork Street and the Waddington name synonymous with it.
The new London gallery continued its tradition, exhibiting paintings and drawings by Yeats and smaller works from the School of Paris, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. It also introduced the work of British artists emerging from St Ives - Terry Frost, Patrick Heron and Roger Hilton - and painters and sculptors such as Ivon Hitchens, Elisabeth Frink and William Turnbull.