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Born in Scotland, Duncan Grant spent the first years of his life in India and Burma, where his father served as an army officer. He returned to England in 1894 to attend school, staying with his uncle and aunt Sir Richard and Lady Strachey. It was through his cousins Lytton and Pippa that he first met with other members of the Bloomsbury Group, of which he later became a central figure. Grant studied art at the Westminster School (1902), in Italy between 1902 and 1903, in Paris under Jacques Emile Blanche (1906–1907) and at the Slade (1907). He remained a great traveller throughout his life, and absorbed the many different cultural influences he experienced in Europe and North Africa. His own output underwent many changes as he appraised the work of different artists he admired.
Grant’s first one-man exhibition was at the Carfax Gallery in 1920.
The painting shows a part of Charleston’s complex of farm buildings, dominated by the great barn beside the pond. There are paintings of the same subject by Bell and Fry, as well as other versions by Grant. It was in Michael Sadler’s Collection by the time he left Leeds in 1923, was probably bought around the time of the artist’s first one-man exhibition, held at the Carfax Gallery in London in 1920.
Title
Farm Buildings at Charleston, East Sussex
Date
1920s
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 46.4 x W 50.5 cm
Accession number
LEEUA1923.29
Acquisition method
donated by Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1923
Work type
Painting