Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Lilypond Screen
Lot Closed
June 30, 09:32 AM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Duncan Grant
1885 - 1978
Lilypond Screen
signed with Omega Workshop monogram (on the reverse of right-hand panel)
household paint on wood, four hinged panels
each panel: 182 by 60cm.; 71¾ by 23¾in.
Executed circa 1913.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work and the below note.
Acquired from Omega Workshops by George and Margaret Booth in 1913 and thence by family descent
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in February 2002, by whom gifted to the present owner
Richard Shone, The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant, United Kingdom, Princeton University Press, 2002, page 141, illustrated fig. 100
Richard Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle, Phaidon Press, 1993, p. 104