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Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Maker

(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Date of Production

(late) 1912

Medium

graphite, bodycolour and oil paint on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 37.6 cm
Width: 17.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.71

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

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

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Related Works

Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Label Text

This figure and two similar ones in The Courtauld Gallery's collection (D.1958.PD.72 and D.1958.PD.73) were originally thought to be horizontal swimmers. Photographs of the decorations in their original location, however, reveal their vertical orientation on panels of interior shutters. The dynamic poses and athletic build of the figures suggests they are dancers. Grant was enthralled by the radical new style of movement performed by the Russian ballet company, the Ballets Russes, who frequently appeared in London at this time, and who feature in a number of his compositions.

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

Bloomsbury Spirit, Artipelag, Stockholm, 23/03/2018-30/09/2018

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

Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010 ...More

Decorating Life - The Art of the Bloomsbury Group, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England, 29/11/2003-24/01/2004

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

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. D29

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 72
ill. on p. 177

Reed, Christopher, Bloomsbury Rooms, New Haven and London 2004
p. 103
fig. 66

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite: "NO 2"; lower left, blue ink: "HHF. 263".

Collector's mark: none.

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