In the early 1970s the number of galleries in London committed to showing international developments in contemporary art, and especially European art, could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd was one of the four. Alongside the Lisson, Situation and Jack Wendler, the gallery of Nigel Greenwood, played a crucial…

The art dealer Nigel Greenwood never achieved the renown of his near-contemporaries Robert Fraser and John Kasmin. Fraser and Kasmin, who had the support of wealthy backers, a luxury that Greenwood never enjoyed, allied themselves with the second wave of British Pop artists in the early sixties and quickly found themselves bathed in the same…

Nigel Greenwood gave me my first solo show, in 1988, I think to our mutual surprise. Getting him to come to my studio was a frustrating business of cancelled appointments. When he finally made it, he accidentally broke my coffee pot, got paint on his trousers and found he had locked himself out of his…

When Nigel Greenwood was asked to prepare an introduction to the catalogue for the Hayward Annual exhibition, “A Journey Through Contemporary Art”, that he had selected in 1985 he demurred on the basis that he wasn’t a writer. Pressed, he produced reams of intelligent, readable copy, unmistakably like his distinctive, witty voice. The postscript began,…