Three Figures (after Picasso)

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Three Figures (after Picasso)
pencil and ink
7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (20 x 16.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1913.

Provenance

Private collection, UK.
with Gillian Jason, London, where purchased by the present owner, October 2000.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Three Figures is a design executed for use in the Omega Workshops, compositionally owing much to Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Grant was a founding member of Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops, an English applied arts company, in 1913. Designs were selected to decorate different objects including ceramics, furniture, carpets, and other textiles.

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