Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

Property from the Estate of the late CYRIL FRANKLIN

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

The Stove, Fitzroy Street

signed and dated lower left D Grant 36, oil on canvas
36 x 28in. (91.5 x 71cm.)

Provenance

Thos. Agnew & Sons. London

Literature

R. Mortimer, Duncan Grant, Penguin Modern Painters, 1944, pl.14

Exhibited

London, Thos. Agnews & Sons, Recent Work by Duncan Grant, 1937, no.23, where purchased by the present owners
Venice, British Pavilion, XXth Biennale International Art Exhibition, 1940, no.61
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Painters' Progress, May - July 1950, no.12 as 'Girl by a Stove'

Lot Essay

'The Stove: Fitzroy Street' is an interior of Grant's studio at 8 Fitzroy Street and shows Angelica Bell the artist's daughter, reading, seated on a low chair inherited by Grant from Walter Sickert, the studio's previous occupant. The sculpture by the mirror is by John Skeaping and is now in the collection of the Charleston Trust

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his help in cataloguing this lot

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