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Toy design - Blue Butterfly Dance
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1891-1981
(artist)
1891-1981
Title
Toy design - Blue Butterfly Dance
Date of Production
1914 - 1916
Medium
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper; each element cut out from separate pieces of paper and collaged together, the whole object inlaid into a separate sheet of laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 26.1 cm
Width: 32.5 cm
Width: 32.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1958.PD.40
Mode of Acquisition
Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© Bodleian, Oxford
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
This brightly coloured design of a dancer as a winged fairy or butterfly was intended to have the left arm articulated, as indicated by the little hole on her shoulder. Gill perhaps envisaged her designs as part of the series of toys already on sale at the Omega Workshops and advertised in their sale catalogue.
Provenance
Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958
Exhibition History
The Bloomsbury Group, Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark, 06/03/2025-10/08/2025
Special Display - Works by Winifred Gill, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/05/2009-29/09/2009
Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004 ...More
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, 01/09/1986-01/10/1986
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less
Special Display - Works by Winifred Gill, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 22/05/2009-29/09/2009
Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004 ...More
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, 01/09/1986-01/10/1986
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less
Literature
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
cat. no. D43
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 60
ill.
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 48
ill. on p. 175
cat. no. D43
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 60
ill.
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 48
ill. on p. 175
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre (and a truncated line repeated on left wing): "Goodall's / Cosmopolitan / Bond".
Inscription: Verso: upper left, blue ink: “HHF 263” and added after in graphite: “/42”; left centre, graphite: “Left arm (back) / This wing is not the same / as the other. It is smaller.”; lower centre, blue ink: “HHF 263” and added after in graphite: “/42”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: upper left, blue ink: “HHF 263” and added after in graphite: “/42”; left centre, graphite: “Left arm (back) / This wing is not the same / as the other. It is smaller.”; lower centre, blue ink: “HHF 263” and added after in graphite: “/42”.
Collector's mark: none.
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