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Percy Moore Turner
1877–1950
Best known as a British art dealer and writer on art, he helped connect London collectors with French painting in the early 20th century. His career stretched across decades of change in the art world, from gallery work to publishing books on major artists.
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About the author
Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on July 6, 1877, Percy Moore Turner later lived in Norwich and built a career in the art trade. Sources describe him as a British art dealer who worked with French dealers from the early 1900s and became an important link between the London and Paris art worlds.
In 1920 he opened the Independent Gallery in Grafton Street, London, where exhibitions ran into the early 1930s. He dealt especially in French art, advised major collectors, and is also remembered as the author of art books including Van Dyck. Masterpieces in Colour.
He died in 1950. While some catalog and archive records differ on the exact year, multiple art-reference sources identify 1950, so that is the date used here.