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Grosvenor Gallery
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Gallery which opened in 1877 in New Bond Street and immediately became associated with the *Aesthetic movement. The opening show included a night scene by Whistler entitled Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, of which Ruskin wrote: 'I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler sued him and was awarded a farthing's damages.
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Oscar Wilde, present at the opening, was later parodied as the aesthetic Bunthorne in *Patience with the lines: A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man.
The gallery survived until 1903, when its premises were coverted to a concert room, the Aeolian Hall.
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