Summer in the Garden

Details

ROGER FRY (1866-1934)
Summer in the Garden
signed 'Roger Fry' (lower left)
oil on panel
17 1/2 x 22 in. (44.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1911.

Provenance

Acquired by 1936, and by descent.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1997, p. 89, no. 45, illustrated.

Exhibited

Altrincham, Library, Museum & Art Gallery, exhibition not traced.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, February - May 1997, no. 45.

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Lot Essay

Summer in the Garden shows Vanessa Bell at Fry’s house Durbins, Guildford. Bell rented a cottage close to Durbins and was painted and drawn several times by Fry in late summer 1911, when their love affair began.

We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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