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Rug design
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1886-1973
Alternatively attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978
(artist)
1886-1973
Alternatively attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978
Title
Rug design
Date of Production
1913 - 1915
Medium
bodycolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 30.4 cm
Width: 30.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1958.PD.90
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
Keywords
Label Text
This rug design is formed of a symmetrical base of intersecting planes, overlaid with short black parallel lines. The density of the design is lifted by allowing the white paper below to remain visible. Etchells, a founding member of the Omega Workshops, collaborated closely with Grant during its early years before he left to join the rival Rebel Art Centre. He expressed his enthusiasm for geometric forms in a letter to Fry, writing: ‘I am trying to really understand planes. It gets into quite a passion’.
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
Picasso, Braque, Leger and the International Language of Cubism, Complesso del Vittoriano & Rome & Italy, 07/03/2013-30/06/2013
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009 ...More
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
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less
Picasso, Braque, Leger and the International Language of Cubism, Complesso del Vittoriano & Rome & Italy, 07/03/2013-30/06/2013
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009 ...More
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
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. D15
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 194
p. 193
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 95
cat. no. D15
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 194
p. 193
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 95
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF 263.”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF 263.”.
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