'The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official exhibition. The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s most high profile and respected awards which attracts hundreds of entries each year and the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney scene.' (https://www.shervingallery.com.au/event/salon-des-refuses-2019/)
'The annual Salon des Refuses exhibition is selected from the official entries to both the Archibald Prize (for portraiture) and the Wynne Prize (for landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or figure sculpture) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
'The Salon des Refuses was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in the tradition of the renegade French Impressionists of the 1860s who held a breakaway exhibition from the reactionary French Academy.'
Source: National Trust of Australia website, http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/
Sighted: 25/03/2010
