Richard Saltoun Gallery

About the Gallery
Founded in 2012 in London, Richard Saltoun Gallery specialises in Modern and Post-War art, guided by a strong focus on rediscovering the work of important yet under-recognised women artists through presentations at all its locations, online exhibitions, publications, events and participation in art fairs around the world. With three international locations, Dover Street in London, Via Margutta in Rome, and on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, the gallery provides an important hub for discussion, collaboration, and collecting.

About the Presentation
At Independent 20th Century, Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo presentation of Baya (1931–1998). Baya rose to international fame at just 16, when she held her first solo exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1947. Her vibrant, patterned compositions—filled with women, birds, plants and musical instruments—reimagine North African womanhood on her own terms. Rather than exoticised objects, her female figures exist in joyful, autonomous worlds, often in harmony with nature and each other. Admired by figures such as André Breton and Pablo Picasso, Baya created a practice that was both modern and deeply personal. Her work has been the subject of renewed institutional attention, with a major retrospective at the Sharjah Art Museum (2021) and inclusion in the 2024 Venice Biennale.