A pair of Omega Workshops grey painted armchairs
A pair of Omega Workshops grey painted armchairs

OMEGA WORKSHOPS, CIRCA 1913

細節
A pair of Omega Workshops grey painted armchairs
Omega Workshops, circa 1913
Grey-painted, gently arching toprail pierced with nine roundels above downswept armrests, caned seat, back and arms
44½in. (113cm.) high
Original label with Omega mark (2)
出版
The Studio, August 1930, pp. 142/3
The Omega Workshops, Alliance and Enmity in English Art. 1911-1920, p. 225, pl. 335 (this pair illustrated)

拍品專文

Cf: J. Collins, The Omega Workshops, University of Chicago Press, 1984, pl. 15
See also: Richard Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits. Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and their Circle, Oxford, 1976, pp. 244/5
Isabelle Anscombe, Omega and After. Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts, London, 1981, pp. 134/5, fig. 39

This particular design, originally conceived by Roger Fry in 1913, was used by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in a 1929 project by the Omega Interior Design Company for the dining room at Penns-in-the-Rocks, home of Lady Dorothy Wellesley. Grant later recalled it as 'the best thing we did' and the commission was very well received and featured in the Studio magazine of 1930.
It was there described to be an 'effect...of iridescence', with six large painted panels alternating with rectangles of colour amidst tones of pale grey and green.