The private view for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition took place on 5 November 1910, Guy Fawkes's day, at the Grafton Galleries in London. For the first time the British public saw the work of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and other painters drawn mainly from the late nineteenth-century French avant-garde. It was a succe's de scandale which became at once the most widely publicised and also the most notorious exhibition in the history of art. Both its timing and the ...