Still Life - The Dinner Table

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Maker


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)

Object Number

P.1935.RF.182

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

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, 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

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