Orchard
Orchard, Woman seated in a Garden

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker


1866-1934

Title

Orchard
Orchard, Woman seated in a Garden

Date of Production

c. 1913

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 35.6 cm (canvas)
Width: 30.5 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1958.XX.143

Mode of Acquisition

Christine Day, gift, 1958

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Label Text

This painting of a woman reading in a sunlit garden provides an idyllic image of the Bloomsbury Group at leisure. The identity of the woman remains uncertain. The writer Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell’s sister, has been suggested. More probably she is Ka Cox, whose portrait by Duncan Grant is also in the Courtauld Gallery’s collection. Grant wrote many years later: ‘I see no reasons why the figure in [Fry’s] picture should not be of her. - The pose & general proportions are like hers...’ The technique and the lively colours reflect Fry’s study of French Post-Impressionist painting. The work retains its original frame, presumably decorated by the artist.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : lower left & recto : : Roger Fry

Provenance

Gift of Christine Day 1958

Exhibition History

The Bloomsbury Group, Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark, 06/03/2025-10/08/2025
The Enchanted Garden: 1850 to 1950, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 23/06/2018-07/10/2018; William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, 19/10/2018-27/01/2019
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
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Chequers, England, 1983-85
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