Design with red male figure

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Date of Production

1913 - 1915

Medium

bodycolour on wove paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue; cracks and loss in the media, with a large area in red at left centre edge made up

Dimensions

Height: 56.7 cm
Width: 44.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.16

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Grant’s bold design joyfully embraces influences of sculpture and textiles from different regions of Africa. His emphatic outlines and the interplay between positive and negative shapes also echo the work of Matisse. French artists, including Matisse himself, had collected African art before the First World War, but in England it was largely unappreciated. Fry’s enthusiasm for non-Western art shifted public perception and inspired young artists such as Grant and, later, the sculptor Henry Moore.

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958

Exhibition History

CORPUS: The Body Unbound, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 16/06/2017-16/07/2017

Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017

Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990

Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 56
ill. on p. 176

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (hidden under Japanese tissue): centre, graphite, signed and dated: “Duncan Grant (D.G. 29/11/62”. Verso (on top of Japanese tissue): lower left, graphite: “HHF 263/16”.

Collector's mark: none.

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