Orchard, Woman seated in a Garden
Maker
(Artists)
1866-1934
1866-1934
Title
Orchard, Woman seated in a Garden
Date of Production
1912 - 1914
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 35.6 cm (canvas)
Width: 30.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 30.5 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.1958.XX.143
Mode of Acquisition
Christine Day, gift, 1958
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
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.
Provenance
Gift of Christine Day 1958
Exhibition History
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, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Chequers, England, 1983-85
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Chequers, England, 1983-85
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed : lower left & recto : : Roger Fry
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