John Kasmin

At 17 years of age, he moved to New Zealand, where he had a job as a junior legal clerk.

[2] In 1956, he returned to London due to problems with the police[2] and worked at Gallery One for Victor Musgrave.

Other artists that Kasmin showed included Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Anthony Caro, William G. Tucker, John Latham, Richard Smith, Bernard Cohen, Robin Denny, Howard Hodgkin and Gillian Ayres.

[4] Kasmin opened a large white space on 118 New Bond Street that was unusual for the time, as until then most commercial galleries had been domestic in scale.

Kasmin closed his gallery in 1972 but continued to operate in partnership with other London dealers into the 1990s.