The Armchair, 8 Fitzroy Street

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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.

Places

England, London, Bloomsbury

Subjects

stringed instrument, still life, Bloomsbury Group, domestic interior, armchair, wallpaper, cushion

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)

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