River Scene, Punt in a Stream

Details

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
River Scene, Punt in a Stream
signed and dated 'R E Fry/July/18/9/4' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16½ x 21 in. (41.9 x 53.4 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by A. B. Ashby at the 1951 Exhibition and thence by descent.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, The Collection of Sir Augustus Daniel, June 1951, no. 51.

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Lot Essay

In 1891, Roger Fry went to Italy and then Paris to study painting. He began to lecture on art and became a critic and author. Fry made his debut in art criticism with a review of George Moore's book Modern Art for the Cambridge Review a year before he painted the present work.
In 1894, when he painted River Scene, Punt in a Stream, Fry began lecturing on Italian Art for the Cambridge Extension Movement.

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