Spinet

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Maker

Arnold Dolmetsch (manufacturer)
1858-1940
(artist)
1866-1934

Title

Spinet

Date of Production

1918

Medium

wood and oil paint

Dimensions

Height: 82.1 cm
Width: 101.8 cm

Object Number

LF.1958.XX.254

Mode of Acquisition

Private collection, loan, 1958

Credit

On long-term loan from a private collection.

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This instrument was executed for Fry by Arnold Dolmetsch, pioneer of the early instrument and music revival. Fry’s decorations for the exterior consist of abstract geometrical forms which give the effect of Cubist collages. By contrast, he decorated the underside of the lid in a figurative style with a painting of a nude in a landscape.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : inscribed : above keyboard : : ARNOLD DOLMETSCH FECIT ANNO MCMXVII ROGER FRY ORN. ANNO MCMXVIII

Provenance

Roger Eliot Fry (1866-1934) ; by descent to the present owner

Exhibition History

Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000

Literature

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 108

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