Alex Reid (art dealer)
Alexander Reid was a Glasgow art dealer, and friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Vincent van Gogh. He was one of the most influential art dealers in Europe in the early 20th century, exhibiting and selling artworks by some of the finest artists of his period, including the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists. He helped build up the French painting collection of Sir William Burrell. and many of the works he dealt with now feature in major private, civic and national art collections all over the world.
Reid’s Glasgow-based art gallery, La Société des Beaux-Arts, was located at 117 West George St, from 1904 until 1932, continuing for four years after his death in the magnificent Sun Life Insurance Building designed by William Leiper. After 82 years Reid's former gallery reopened in 2014 as Leiper Fine Art.
In 1928, he joined forces with Earnest Lefevre to open the Lefevre Gallery in London.
