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