20th Century British Art

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Lot 14
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Duncan Grant 1885-1978

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Duncan Grant
  • The Roman Boy
  • signed and inscribed ROME on the reverse

  • oil on canvas

  • 70 by 54.5cm., 27½ by 21½in.

Exhibited

London, Agnews, Recent Pictures by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Keith Baynes, June-July 1932, no.21 as The Roman

Catalogue Note

Painted in 1931 during Duncan Grant's stay in Rome with the American journalist and socialite Vincent Sheean at the Palazzo Lovatelli. The sitter is probably a professional model.

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.