Cader Idris

Location

Country: Switzerland
City: Geneva
Place: UK Mission to the United Nations

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

Wales, Gwynedd, Snowdonia, Cader Idris

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, Bloomsbury Group, grass, mountain, mountainous

Materials & Techniques

cardboard, oil, oil painting

Artist

Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)

Title

Cader Idris

Date

1912

Medium

Oil on cardboard

Dimensions

height: 67.00 cm, width: 79.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, July 1970

Inscription

br: D.Grant / 1912

Provenance

Collection of The Right Honourable The Lord Glenaevon, P.C.; by whom sold through Sotheby’s, London, on 22 April 1970 (Lot 250); from which sale purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Department of the Environment in June 1970

GAC number

8978