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Lot 99

Duncan Grant, British 1885-1978 - Lovers Entwined, c.1965; waterolour and pencil on paper, annotated...

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Lot 99

Duncan Grant, 
British 1885-1978 - 
Lovers Entwined, c.1965; 
waterolour and pencil on paper, annotated...

Starting Bid: £2,000

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

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Description

Duncan Grant, 
British 1885-1978 - 

Lovers Entwined, c.1965; 

waterolour and pencil on paper, annotated lower right 'fixed', 55.5 x 65.5 cm (ARR) 

Provenance: 
Christie's, London, British & Continental Furniture from 1860 to the present day - 20th Century British Decorative Arts, 29th October 1998, lot 524; 
private collection, purchased from the above 

Note: 
with thanks to Richard Shone for his assistance with the cataloguing of this work. 

Duncan Grant was a central member of the Bloomsbury Group, closely associated with seminal figures in early 20th century British culture such as Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, alongside the art critic Roger Fry, the latter having a particularly strong impact on Grant's artistic approach. Grant's works can be found in a wide number of collections throughout the country, including the Tate Britain and the V&A in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. 

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