The Armchair, 8 Fitzroy Street

Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)

Oil on canvas

1925

Share this:

© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.

License this image

Start Zooming
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Duncan Grant was born in Inverness in 1885. He studied at Westminster School of Art and also in Paris - where he met Matisse and Picasso - and at the Slade in London. From 1908 he was part of the Bloomsbury group, that included Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Grant’s painting style was influenced by the post-Impressionist exhibitions of 1910 and 1912 that Fry organised in London. With Fry and Bell, Grant founded the Omega Workshops to make decorative works. In his later years he lived at Charleston, Sussex, with Vanessa Bell. The pair travelled widely in Europe and spent much time in the South of France. After Bell's death in 1961, he continued painting and travelling and died in 1978 of pneumonia.
  • Explore
  • Details
    Title
    The Armchair, 8 Fitzroy Street
    Date
    1925
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 78.80 cm, width: 51.40 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Leicester Galleries, December 1958
    Provenance
    Collection of ‘H. Trevor Williams’; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1958
    GAC number
    4833