Marble Hill

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Marble Hill
signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'DG Marble Hill/43' (lower right)
pencil, chalk and ink, unframed
8¾ x 12½ in. (22.1 x 31.8 cm.)

Provenance

Paul Roche and by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

The estimate for this lot should read £1200-1800 and not as shown in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

When Duncan Grant's parents moved to Twickenham in the early 1920s Grant took advantage of his visits to them to draw and paint what he called 'the western suburbs' which he found 'full of romance'. He delighted in the houses and villas along the Thames as much as the church and streets of Twickenham (Boats at Twickenham , 1926, Birmingham Art Gallery). The Palladian Marble Hill House was a particular favourite, which he has drawn here during one of his frequent war-time visits to his then widowed mother living nearby.
R.S.

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