The Anglo-French Art Centre (or Anglo-French Art School, previously the St John's Wood Art School, was an art school at 29 Elm Tree Road in St John's Wood, north

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, England. The centre was founded in 1946 by

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, who studied in

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at the

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and Atelier Gromaire before the

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. He moved to London at the end of the war and aimed to revolutionise British art education. He invited artists from

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and other countries to exhibit and teach. Artists included Robert Couturier,

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, Agnès Capri and

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. He was also supported by English artists who visited to give lectures, including

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, Victor Pasmore and Julian Trevelyan. Other lecturers included

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s and museum directors. Students included

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, Breon O'Casey. Forty-Eight Theatre, a company formed and supported by Velona Pilcher and directed by David Tutaev, rehearsed and performed at the centre in the late 1940s. The centre closed in 1951.

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