Four-fold screen with Lily pond design

Copyright

© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023
Photo © Courtauld
ⓒ Work in copyright. All rights reserved.

Maker

(Artists)
1885-1978

Title

Four-fold screen with Lily pond design

Date of Production

1913 - 1914

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

Height: 181.3 cm
Width: 60.8 cm

Object Number

F.1961.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Feodora Stancioff, gift, in memory of her sister, Lady Muir of Blair Drummond, 1961

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Grant developed the ‘lily pond’ pattern from a sketch of a goldfish pond made at Durbins, Fry’s home in Surrey. After Grant had mixed his paint ready for use, Fry suggested he should pour the paint directly from the cans to give the design spontaneity. Lilies, water and goldfish merge into a swirl of abstract shapes that suggest the shifting patterns of colour and light on the pond’s surface. Grant used this design for tables and, challenging the horizontal nature of water, on the vertical panels of this screen.

Inscriptions

Inscription: CIRC.806-1966

Provenance

Lady Muir of Blair Drummond (neé Nadejda Stancioff) (1894-1957) (Wife of Sir Alexander Kay Muir, 2nd Baronet (1868-1951); Gift in memory of Lady Muir by her sister Miss Feodora Stancioff (1895-1969), 1961

Exhibition History

Futurism & Europe. The aesthetics of a new world, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, 29/04/2023-03/09/2023
Bloomsbury Spirit, Artipelag, Stockholm, 23/03/2018-30/09/2018
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
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Un Altro Tempo. Vite Nell'Arte, MaRT & Roverto & Italy, 22/09/2012-13/01/2013
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
The Art of Bloomsbury, Tate Gallery, London, 30/10/1999-30/01/2000
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984
Omega Workshops, Millers & Lewes & England, 1946
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Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 71
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 104
The Art of Bloomsbury, Tate Gallery, London, 1999-2000
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The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
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