Portrait of Nina Hamnett
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
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)
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
...MoreUproar! 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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