Summer flowers

Details

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Summer flowers
oil on board
12¾ x 16 in. (32.3 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1919.

Provenance

The artist's family.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1983.

Exhibited

New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 21.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 33.

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Lot Essay

Fry produced many flower paintings, but towards the end of the First World War, after selling all his canvases of this type in an exhibition, he told his daughter, 'I shall never paint flowers again. It is dangerous to try to repeat anything that has been a success because you then get stuck in one style'.

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