Blain, Southern was a

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with branches in London, Berlin and New York. It was started in September 2010 by

Harry Blain Harry Christian Peter Blain (born 12 September 1967) is a British art dealer and a co-founder of the BlainSouthern gallery. In 2002 he started Haunch of Venison Haunch of Venison was a contemporary art gallery operating from 2002 until 2 ...

and Graham Southern, who had sold their previous gallery,

Haunch of Venison Haunch of Venison was a contemporary art gallery operating from 2002 until 2013. It supported the work of contemporary leading artists, presented a broad and critically acclaimed program of exhibitions to a large public through international exh ...

, to Christie's. The gallery was originally at 21 Dering Street, but moved to 4 Hanover Square, London W1, in October 2012. The London gallery opened on 13 October 2010 with an exhibition by

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. In 2011 the gallery opened a branch in the former print room of ''

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'' in the Potsdamer Straße in

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. The first show was of work by

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, with the participation of

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. Subsequent exhibitions have included drawings by

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

in 2012; a collaboration between

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and

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in 2013; sculpture by

Lynn Chadwick Lynn Russell Chadwick, (24 November 1914 – 25 April 2003) was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the ...

in 2014; work by Andreas Schmitten, and Mathias Lanfer, curated by

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

, in 2015; and

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’s ''Moving Stillness'' later that year. In May 2019, the gallery presented ''The Mariners Meadow'' by

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artist

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. In 2019 the gallery opened a space in New York with an inaugural exhibition by Abdoulaye Konaté. The gallery permanently closed all three locations in 2020, saying that it was "unable to secure the gallery’s future long term".

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