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Still Life - The Dinner Table
Maker
(Artists)
1885-1978
1885-1978
Title
Still Life - The Dinner Table
Date of Production
c. 1912
Medium
oil and graphite on paper on cardboard
Dimensions
Height: 56 cm (board)
Width: 77.6 cm (board)
Width: 77.6 cm (board)
Accession Number
P.1935.RF.182
Mode of Acquisition
Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Table settings & decorations
Label Text
Duncan Grant was greatly inspired by the French artist Paul Cézanne, whose radical work he encountered at two groundbreaking exhibitions organised by Roger Fry in 1910 and 1912. Here, Grant experiments with short, parallel brushstrokes like those favoured by Cézanne. With this technique, he breaks up the surface of the painting, turning this dinner table arrangement into a strange and unfamiliar landscape of colour and form.
Provenance
Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935
Exhibition History
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Radical Bloomsbury - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 16/04/2011-09/10/2011
Radical Bloomsbury - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 16/04/2011-09/10/2011
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