Still life with Opel

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Still life with Opel
signed and dated 'D.Grant/'39' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm.)

Provenance

with Alex, Reid and Lefevre, London.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in October 1980.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Bloomsbury, London, Tate Gallery, November 1999 - January 2000, p. 258, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 13.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Paintings at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporation Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 18.

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Lot Essay

The present view was painted in London at 8 Fitzroy Street, the artist's studio, which was destroyed in the war in the following year. In the background is one of the large painted canvases The Flower Gatherers, a section of a mural for H.M.S. Queen Mary, which was rejected by the company officials. The word Opel is an advertisement for a make of car on the back of a magazine.

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