Rug design

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Rug design

Date of Production

1913 - 1915

Medium

graphite, bodycolour and collage on tracing paper with a pinhole at each corner

Dimensions

Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 53.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.4

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The application of strips of coloured paper on the sheet was inspired by the Omega artists’ investigation of Cubist collages. Here, opaque orange paper contrasts with a delicate purple wash and flat planes of opaque watercolour. As well as providing texture, collage is a convenient way to cover a darker colour with a lighter one. Duncan Grant used similar short black parallel lines in another rug he designed for the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1913, also in The Courtauld's collection, making it likely that he was also the creator of this work.

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

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

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009

Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004 ...More

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

Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 12
ill. on p. 97

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263” and added after in graphite: “/4”.

Collector's mark: none.

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