Design - 'Trojan Women'

Maker

(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Date of Production

1913 - 1915

Medium

graphite, bodycolour and oil paint on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.59

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

In 1913, Fry invited Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell to be co-directors as well as contributors of the Omega Workshops. Based at 33 Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury, the Workshops held a portfolio of reference designs that could be used by artists to decorate different types of objects. This rectangular design was made without a particular surface in mind, but was later adapted to suit the round format of a tray. The frieze-like figures may have been inspired by The Trojan Women, a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

Modern Couples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, 26/04/2018-20/08/2018; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 10/10/2018-27/01/2019

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 ...More

The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984

Duncan Grant, designer, Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton, England, 11/03/1980-13/04/1980

Duncan Grant, designer, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England, 01/02/1980-29/02/1980 ...Less

Literature

The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
cat. no. D8

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 41
ill. on p. 174

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite: "4"; lower left, blue ink: "HHF. 263" and added after in graphite: "/59".

Collector's mark: none.

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