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Lot 12

Duncan Grant, British 1885-1978 - Men in a Bar, c.1930s; pencil on paper, signed with initials...

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Lot 12

Duncan Grant, 
British 1885-1978 - 
Men in a Bar, c.1930s;
pencil on paper, signed with initials...

Price Realised: £1,050

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 12

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Duncan Grant
British 1885-1978 - 

Men in a Bar, c.1930s;

pencil on paper, signed with initials lower right 'DG', 19.6 x 15.2 cm (ARR) 

Provenance: 
Bloomsbury Auctions, London, Vintage Posters, Oils, Watercolours, Drawings & Prints, 20th January 2011, lot 367; 
Private Collection 

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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