Lot Essay
This vivid self-portrait, showing Grant in his late forties, is one of relatively few self-portraits from between the two wars. Most of Grant's drawings and paintings of himself date to c. 1908-10 and from his later years, c. 1950 onwards. It was almost certainly painted in his London studio, 8 Fitzroy Street, where a photograph from the early 1930s (Tate Archive) shows his reflection in a mirror, very like the present work.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance with the cataloguing of the three lots by Duncan Grant.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance with the cataloguing of the three lots by Duncan Grant.