4 September – 20 October 2019
Long Gallery

The concept of the Salon des Refusés has a very honourable history: the first was held in 1863 and arose because the official exhibition sponsored by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris had been coming under huge criticism for rejecting new artists. The resulting complaints of bias led the Emperor Napoleon III to allow the rejected works to be displayed in a separate exhibition. In that first exhibition were several important paintings such as Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass, James McNeil-Whistler’s The White Girl, and works by Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin, Johan Jongkind and Camille Pissarro.

In this year’s Salon des Refusés you can view the works that nearly made the finalists travelling show of the 28th Annual Wallace Art Awards.

Left to right: Naomi Roche, ‘Six hundred and Sixty Eight’, 2019, Stoneware ceramic, 210 x 2000 x 700mm; Anh Tran, When Doves Cry, 2019, Oil, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas, 1450 x 1050mm.