Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale

Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 232. 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