Spinet
Maker
Arnold Dolmetsch (manufacturer)
1858-1940
(artist)
1866-1934
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
Width: 101.8 cm
Accession Number
LF.1958.XX.254
Mode of Acquisition
Private collection, loan, 1958
Credit
On long-term loan from a private collection.
Copyright
Work in the public domain
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.
Provenance
Roger Eliot Fry (1866-1934) ; by descent to the present owner
Exhibition History
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000
The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, The 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
cat. no. 108
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : inscribed : above keyboard : : ARNOLD DOLMETSCH FECIT ANNO MCMXVII ROGER FRY ORN. ANNO MCMXVIII
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