Portrait of Nina Hamnett

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Maker


1866-1934

Title

Portrait of Nina Hamnett

Date of Production

1917

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 82 cm (canvas)
Width: 61 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1935.RF.146

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Label Text

The artist Nina Hamnett lived and painted in the bohemian art worlds of both London and Paris. She had been part of the Omega Workshops for a number of years when Roger Fry made this bold portrait of her. He accentuates Hamnett’s sharp, bobbed haircut and plain working clothes, features that would have marked her as a strikingly modern woman to contemporary viewers.

Provenance

Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Roger Fry, Charleston, Firle, 15/11/2025-15/03/2026; Museum of Somerset, Taunton, 28/03/2026-04/07/2026
Nina Hamnett, The Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, East Sussex, 19/05/2021-05/09/2021
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme (Pilot) - Portraits, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 03/02/2017-04/06/2017
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Uproar! The First 50 years of the London Group. 1913-1963, Ben Uri Gallery, London, 30/10/2013-01/03/2014
Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010
Chequers, England, 1983-85
Portraits by Roger Fry, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 18/09/1976-14/10/1976; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 23/10/1976-21/11/1976
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