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Rug design

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1886-1973

Attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Rug design

Date of Production

1913 - 1915

Medium

graphite and watercolour on tracing paper [not bodycolour]

Dimensions

Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 15.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.64

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© The Estate of Frederick Etchells. All rights reserved. DACS 2023. © Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

This design is traced from another drawing, allowing the artist to modify and refine certain elements without losing the preliminary design. The deliberately uneven line of the left-hand border, which has been sketched out in pencil then painted in, is typical of the Omega Workshops. Fry encouraged his artists to exaggerate the irregularities of their drawings to ensure the artist’s touch was clearly retained on the final product, taking into account the shift in medium.

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

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
cat. no. 11
ill. on p. 96

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263” and added after in graphite: “/64”.

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