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Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Maker

(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Date of Production

1912

Medium

graphite, bodycolour and oil paint on wove paper, framed in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 35.1 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.72

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

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Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square Shutter design for 38 Brunswick Square

Label Text

This design was for a window shutter at 38 Brunswick Square, in Bloomsbury. Several members of the so-called ‘Bloomsbury Group’ lived in the house at various times, including the writer Virginia Woolf and the economist John Maynard Keynes. The design was executed for rooms occupied by Woolf’s brother, Adrian Stephen, and Grant himself. The naked figure dancing wildly expresses something of the unconventional and liberated ethos of the Bloomsbury Group.

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme - Radical Drawing, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 18/10/2019-19/01/2020

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 ...More

Radical Bloomsbury - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 16/04/2011-09/10/2011

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

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

Blast to Freeze, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 24/02/2003-11/05/2003

Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 14/09/2002-05/01/2003

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000

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

Literature

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 133
p. 123
fig. 70

Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2002-03
p. 321
pl. 6
dated 1913-14

Reed, Christopher, Bloomsbury Rooms, New Haven and London 2004
p. 103
fig. 65 ...More

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 70
ill. on p. 177 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite: "3"; lower left, blue ink: "HHF. 263.".

Collector's mark: none.

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