# Alfred Rozelaar Green

Alfred Rozelaar-Green, RWA (14 July 1917 – 7 July 2013) was a British artist and founder of the Anglo-French Art Centre in St. John's Wood.

## Biography

Rozelaar-Green was the only child of Leon Rozelaar and his wife Stella Mosely. He spent two years studying physics, mathematics and engineering at Cambridge University before leaving for London and the Central School of Art in 1937. The following year, he went to Paris to study Fine Art at the Académie Julian and under the tutelage of the social-realist painter Marcel Gromaire. While in Paris, he met his first wife Nita Bassetti, an artist's model who had posed for Matisse, and together they had three sons.

## The Anglo-French Art Centre

On his return to London after World War II he set up the Anglo-French Art Centre in St. John's Wood, London, where he invited artists from France and beyond to exhibit and teach. These included Fernand Léger, Robert Couturier, Jean Lurçat, Germaine Richier, Óscar Domínguez, Marc Saint-Saëns, Oskar Kokoschka and Antoni Clavé. The Art Centre also received the support of British artists of the time, such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Julian Trevelyan, Graham Sutherland and Victor Pasmore, who visited and lectured frequently.

## Solo exhibitions

1959: Galerie du Colisée, Paris
1960: Galerie du Colisée, Paris / Galerie Les Calades, Avignon
1961: Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris / Galerie de la Chimère, St-Rémy-de-Provence / Musée de Carpentras
1962: Galerie Yvette Morin, Paris
1963: Musée d'Orange
1964: Galerie d'Art, Orange
1965: Woodstock Gallery, London
1966: Galerie La Calade, Avignon
1967: Maison de la Culture, Bourges
1968: Galerie Aktuaryus, Strasbourg
1969: Whibley Gallery, London / Vera Lazuk Gallery, New York
1971: Whibley Gallery, London
1972: Théâtre Municipal, Caen / Théâtre de Paris
1973: Galerie Jouvène, Marseille / Galerie des Orfèvres, Paris / Galerie Aktuaryus, Strasbourg
1974: Galerie Jouvène, Marseille
1975: Galerie Laverrière, Paris
1976: Galerie Aktuaryus, Strasbourg
1977: La Grande Chapelle, Cavaillon
1978: Galerie des Orfèvres, Paris / Galerie Torillec, Arras / Galerie Ro, Malines
1979: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1980: Galerie Gorosane, Paris
1981: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1982: Galerie des Peintres Européens, Cannes / Galerie Gorosane, Paris
1983: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1984: Galerie Vyncke-Van Eyck, Ghent / Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon
1985: Galerie Munsterberg, Bâle / Galerie Quintessens, Utrecht
1986: Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon / Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1987: Galerie Colette Dubois, Paris
1988: Galerie Alfa Corinne Le Monnier, Le Havre / Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon
1989: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles / Château Garneron, Mercurey / Galerie Mercedes, Voorschoten La Haye
1990: Galerie Voldere, Paris
1991: Galerie Mercedes, Voorschoten La Haye / Galerie Alfa Corinne Le Monnier, Le Havre / Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1992 : Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon
1993: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1994: Galerie Alfa Corinne Le Monnier, Le Havre
1995: Galerie Smelik et Stokking, Den Haag / Galerie Patrice Alexis, Thonon
1996: Galerie Horizons, Bruxelles
1997: Château du Logis, Brecey / Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon / Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon
1998: Galerie Courcoux, Stockbridge
1999: Fine Art Gallery, Bath / Fine Art Gallery, Bristol / Galerie Alfa Corinne Le Monnier, Le Havre
2000: Hôpital de Saint-Maurice
2001: Galerie Saint-Hubert, Lyon
2002: Galerie Laetitia, Brie Comte-Robert