Rug design and faces

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1886-1973

Title

Date of Production

1913

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper, with a pinhole at each corner and a strong horizontal fold across the centre (a bit raised) from previously being folded in half

Dimensions

Height: 43.2 cm
Width: 50.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.27

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

A brightly coloured and intricately patterned rug design occupies the same sheet as several seemingly unrelated sketches of faces and other motifs. The similarity between the rug's border pattern and what appears to be plaits of hair or ears of corn next to the faces, however, suggests some connection between the two drawings.

Frederick Etchells was only briefly a member of the Omega Workshops. In 1913, he and Wyndham Lewis left following a dispute with Roger Fry and went on to found the radical Rebel Art Centre.

Provenance

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. 13
ill. on p. 170

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, blue ink: “HHF. 263” and added in graphite: “/27”.

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