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Duncan Grant: Still Life
Original Oil on Canvas
1938
Size: 80 x 63 cms
The artistic talents of Scottish born Duncan Grant were first recognized at St Paul's school where he was encouraged to pursue an artistic education. He later went on to enroll at the Westminister School of Art and also studied briefly at The Slade
School of Art in London. In 1906 he moved to Paris where he was taught by Jacques-Emile Blanche and studied the Old Masters in the Louvre. By 1913 he had been appointed co-director of the Omega Workshops and three years later, whilst living
in
London's Fitzroy Square, he became a regular visitor at Vanessa and Adrian Bell's Thursday evening meetings, which were to form the nucleus of what later became the Bloomsbury Group. The artists of the group (Bell, Fry and Grant) were
preoccupied
with the work of the Post Impressionists as is apparent in their use of bold colour and interest in creating solid, tangible forms. Their paintings celebrated the sensuous beauty of everyday domestic surroundings. Grant enjoyed
his
position as
one
of
Britain's most important artists until the late 1930's, when the influence of the Bloomsbury group was eclipsed by the Second World War. However, in 1970, Grant was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College
of
Art.
Stock No: FO004
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