September in Sussex

Details

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
September in Sussex
signed and dated 'Roger Fry.1933.' (lower right)
oil on board
15¼ x 21¼ in. (38.7 x 54 cm.)

Provenance

Miss Fry.
Reader's Digest Association Inc., their sale; Christie's, London, 19 November 2004, lot 1, where puchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Colletion, August - October 1987, no. 20.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 32.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The present view is of Laughton Place, with its distinctive tower, near Glynde in Sussex, close to Charleston. In 1928 Virginia Woolf fell in love with the tower and wished to buy it, but the purchase proved impossible. A very similar view was painted by Duncan Grant, the two artists sitting side-by-side.

R.S.

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