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The '''Bignou Gallery''' was a New York City gallery located in Midtown Manhattan. It was a branch of the Bignou Gallery in Paris.<ref>Bignou Gallery. 1941. ''Paintings by Marjorie Phillips: Bignou Gallery''. New York: The Gallery.</ref> The Bignou Gallery exhibited works by major European and American artists including Paul Gauguin, Georges Gimel, Henri Matisse, Jean Lurçat, Antoinette Schulte and Amedeo Modigliani.<ref>Bignou Gallery. 1935. ''Masterpieces by nineteenth century French painters: Bignou Gallery'': April 11th–30. New York City: The Gallery.</ref>

==Étienne Bignou==

Étienne Bignou (1891–1950) was a French art dealer known for his promotion of the Impressionists.

After the French art dealer Georges Petit's death, the Galerie Georges Petit was acquired by Étienne Bignou and the prominent art dealers/brothers Gaston Bernheim-Jeune and Josse Bernheim-Jeune.

==External links== *[http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/FindingAids/BignouGallery.html Finding aid for the Bignou Gallery Albums, 1930-1940s] The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives *[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/field/contri/searchterm/Bignou,%20Etienne/mode/exact Digitized Exhibition catalogs with essays by Bignou] Metropolitan Museum of Art * [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/etienne-bignou-10481 Etienne Bignou photograph] Archives of American Art * [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=104558&imageID=482748&parent_id=100160&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=344&num=180&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=182 View from Bignou Gallery photograph] NYPL Digital Gallery

==Related== *Georges Petit *Jean Lurçat *La Mousmé

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