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Design for embroidered chair seat

Maker

(Artists)
1885-1978

Title

Design for embroidered chair seat

Date of Production

1913

Medium

graphite on wove paper, framed in a circle, large portion of lower left corner missing, now laid down on Japanese paper

Dimensions

Height: 57.7 cm
Width: 79.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.103

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

acquired from the artist by Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter, Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958

Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 23
ill. on p. 171

Reed, Christopher, Bloomsbury Rooms, New Haven and London 2004
p. 127
fig. 87

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (obscured by Japanese tissue): upper left, blue ink and "/53" in graphite: "NNF. 263/53"; directly underneath, in graphite, Courtauld acc. no.: "LDCIG D.1958.PD.58 [this crossed out and replaced with] 103"; left of centre, running vertically, graphite: "Duncan Grant (D.G.) 29/11/62".

Collector's mark: none.

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