Portugal Street

5 Portugal Street, Cambridge

History of 5 Portugal Street

1913

Arthur John Case

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1933 (5-7 Portugal Street)

The Gordon Fraser Gallery owes its international fame to very humble beginnings at a tiny shop in Portugal Street. There was little passing trade at the newly modernised bookshop-cum-art gallery opened by Gordon Fraser in 1936. But amongst the merchandise on sale were original Picasso etchings and drawings by Matisse and James Thurber. The breakthrough came during the war when he commissioned local artists to produce cards which were printed in Bedford. It was there that the Gallery grew into a major force on the greetings card scene. 86 01 31a
Source: Mike Petty Archive – Cambridge PORTUGAL STREET Scrapbook, p. 3.

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1937 An Exhibition of Surrealism, 3 – 20 November 1937

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1962

Kenneth E Gladwell