Exhibitors
Lucy Johnson
| Artist: | DUNCAN JAMES CORROWR GRANT (1885-1978) |
| Title: | DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978) : Still life with black bottle and an aubergine (1926) |
| Dimensions: | 55.90cm high 63.50cm wide |
| Description/Expertise: | DUNCAN GRANT (Scottish,1885-1978)
Still life with black bottle and an aubergine Signed 'Duncan Grant' (on the reverse) Oil on board Painted in 1926 Board height 22 cm., 55.9 in., Length 63.5 cm., 25 in. In a Spanish, marbled frame Frame height 76.50 cm. 30 in. Length 84 .25 cm. 33 ¼ in. £25,000 This work was painted in the artist's studio at 8 Fitzroy Street. For a period in the early to mid 1920s Duncan Grant painted a series of still lifes in a sober, close-toned palette, which were influenced by Chardin, by Spanish still lifes Grant had seen in Spain in 1923, and with the painting of French contemporaries Grant knew and admired such as Derain and Segonzac. ‘One word descriptions are often misleading ; but the one word, ‘sensibility’, goes a long way to sum up the qualities which give Duncan Grant his distinctive position among living artists. His delight in and quick apprehension of subtleties in Nature, especially subtleties of line and colour, are the main sources of his inspiration In his early work, such as a Still Life in the collection of Mr J M Keynes, the passage from Nature to art is tolerably direct, mainly consisting in a sensitive record of the play of interior light over a group of objects on a table.’ (W G Constable) |
| Provenance: | John Maynard Keynes Esq |
| Literature: | W.G. Constable, Duncan Grant, British Artists of Today VI, London, 1927, pl. 15, as 'Still Life'.
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