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Duncan Grant (1885–1978)

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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A painter and decorative artist. Born in Rothiemurchus, Scotland, Grant studied at Westminster School of Art and in Paris with Jacques-Emile Blanche. In 1909, he shared rooms in Fitzroy Square with Maynard Keynes, and struck up a close friendship with his neighbours Virginia Stephen, later Woolf, and her brother Adrian. These connections provided Grant's entry to the Bloomsbury circle. Profoundly influenced by Roger Fry's two Post Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912 to 1913, he gravitated away from realistic depiction, experimenting increasingly with a non-literal use of colour. Grant was a co-director of Fry's Omega Workshop and was celebrated for his designs for decorative schemes and textiles.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Duncan Grant (1885–1978)

Date

1924

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 37.5 x W 23 x D 30 cm

Accession number

6889

Acquisition method

bequeathed by William Milo Keynes, 2010

Work type

Bust

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