Modern British Art
Modern British Art
Duncan Grant
Fanny Reading
Auction Closed
June 28, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Duncan Grant
1885 - 1978
Fanny Reading
signed DGrant (lower left); also signed with initials D.G. (on the reverse of the board)
oil, chalk and pastel on paper, laid on board
unframed (sheet): 47 by 63cm.; 18½ by 24¾in.
framed: 72 by 88cm.; 28¼ by 34½in.
Executed circa late 1950s.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
The Bloomsbury Workshop, London, where acquired by the late owner in 2002
Tony Bradshaw (ed.), A Bloomsbury Canvas, Reflections on the Bloomsbury Group, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2001, illustrated p.49
Fanny was Angelica and David Garnett's daughter, here painted in Duncan Grant's studio at Charleston, sitting in a chair purchased from Heal's by Virginia Woolf and given by her to Vanessa Bell. The chair remains at Charleston today.
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