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Design for embroidered chair seat
Maker
(Artists)
1885-1978
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
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
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.
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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