Title
Still life with cyclamen
circa 1914
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Still life with cyclamens
- Date
- circa 1914
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 63.5 cm board; 99.5 x 88.0 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Margaret Olley and the Sam Hughes Memorial Fund 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 233.1993
- Copyright
- © Estate of Duncan Grant, courtesy Henrietta Garnett
- Artist information
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Duncan Grant
Works in the collection
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About
One of the Bloomsbury Group, Scottish born artist Duncan Grant was a decorator and designer as well as a painter. He was influenced by developments in French art and exhibited in the 1912 'Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition' at Grafton Galleries, London. The catalogue cover was designed by artists Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell and drawn by Grant.
In various ways Grant sought an approach to Modernism. The gentle, delicate fragmented light and colour of 'Still life with cyclamen' is typical of the English sensibility - gentler, and more tentative, intuitive and inconsistent than the French, where a particular theory guided the total effect.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart (2002), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 12 Jan 2002–24 Feb 2002
Margaret's Gifts, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 04 Jan 2020–22 Mar 2020
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, AGNSW Collections, 'The Western Heritage, Renaissance to Twentieth Century', pg. 108-172, Sydney, 1994, 162 (colour illus.).
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members of the Camden Town Group', Perfect Moderns: A history of the Camden Town Group, 'Catalogue of paintings in public collections, pp.157-208, Aldershot, 2000, 186.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 23 (colour illus.), 92. cat.no. 821
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Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart, Favourites: Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart selections, Sydney, 2002. NOTE: no catalogue numbers; titled 'Still life with cyclamens'; Margaret Olley selection.
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Provenance
Pamela Harris, London/England, From the Estate of Pamela Harris, a Bloomsbury friend of the artist.
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from Robin Gibson Gallery 1993
