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Property Sold to Benefit Clifton College, Bristol

Duncan Grant

Still Life with Flowers

Auction Closed

November 26, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Duncan Grant

1885 - 1978

Still Life with Flowers


signed D. Grant and dated :/28 (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 46.5 by 38cm.; 18¼ by 15in.

framed: 58 by 49.5cm.; 22¾ by 19½in.

Executed in 1928.


We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Cecil Taylor, by whom bequeathed to Clifton College, Bristol

Somerset, Street, The Atkinson Gallery, The London Group 1913-1939, 1 - 28 February 1995, no. 25

This unusually freely painted work depicts, possibly, chrysanthemums and foliage in a pot on a terracotta cloth which Grant used in several still lifes at this time.


Richard Shone