Duncan Grant, 1885 - 1978. Artist (Self-portrait)
About this artwork
Roger Fry’s Post-Impressionist exhibition in 1910 prompted Grant to adopt a more radical approach to line and colour. Experimentation with a variety of modern art styles quickly earned Grant a leading position among Britain’s progressive artists and thinkers. Behind his head is Matisse's Woman Seated in an Armchair (1917). Grant convinced fellow Bloomsbury Group member John Maynard Keynes to buy the Matisse painting from the 1918 sale of Degas’s personal collection.
Updated December 2023
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artist:Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978) Scottish
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title:Duncan Grant, 1885 - 1978. Artist (Self-portrait)
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date created:About 1920
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:61.00 x 45.80 cm; Framed: 73.60 x 57.60 x 6.30 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1980
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accession number:PG 2459
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant
Grant was born in Scotland but spent his childhood in Burma, and lived in England from 1895. He was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a loosely-knit circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, resident in the Bloomsbury area of London in the years before the First World War. Grant's...