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Study of Duncan Grant for 'Evening in the Country'
Maker
(artist)
1879-1961
1879-1961
Title
Study of Duncan Grant for 'Evening in the Country'
Date of Production
1944
Medium
oil paint and bodycolour on wove paper, with pinholes at the upper corners
Dimensions
Height: 45.8 cm
Width: 28 cm
Width: 28 cm
Accession Number
P.2024.XX.1
Mode of Acquisition
gift, 2024
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of Minta Collins, 2024, in gratitude for inspiring teaching at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Copyright
© Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2024
Location
Not currently on display
Label Text
Vanessa Bell produced this portrait sketch of Duncan Grant almost 40 years after the pair first met and embarked on a lifelong creative partnership. Its rapid, loose brushwork suggests that it was made from life, likely as a preparatory study for a known painting that shows Grant and Bell’s husband seated in the Garden Room of their Sussex home, Charleston.
Though dating from Bell’s later, more naturalistic, period, the work recalls her earlier experimentation with abstraction and colour in the daring yellow dashes on Grant’s shoulder and in the blocky strokes that construct his cheek and temple.
Though dating from Bell’s later, more naturalistic, period, the work recalls her earlier experimentation with abstraction and colour in the daring yellow dashes on Grant’s shoulder and in the blocky strokes that construct his cheek and temple.
Provenance
Angelica Garnett; Anthony d'Offay, where acquired by Minta Collins, October 1979; gift to The Courtauld, 2024.
Inscriptions
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: VB studio stamp.
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