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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 and oil paint on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.7 cm
Width: 23.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.73

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

Grant worked on interior decorative schemes throughout his career, both with Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and on his own. This figure design is an example of Grant's ability to capture the essence of a form with minimal handling. Here, he explore the limits of figuration, focusing on the silhouette of the dancer and the resulting negative space. The sheet emphasises Grant's interest in shapes and composition, as opposed to the narrative in art. The bold use of colour and flatness of the figure may have been inspired by Matisse, whom he met in 1909.

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

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

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

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

The Omega Workshops, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/11/1963-01/02/1964 ...Less

Literature

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 136
p. 123
fig. 71

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

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 71
ill. on p. 177

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, graphite: "No 1"; lower left, blue ink: "HHF. 263".

Collector's mark: none.

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