Soho Square

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

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, Soho

Subjects

townscape/cityscape, Bloomsbury Group, tree, sunlight, garden, lawn, public square, house, window

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)

Title

Soho Square

Date

1961

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 61.00 cm, width: 51.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, October 1962

Inscription

bl: D Grant / 61

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in November 1962

GAC number

5927