Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
A member of the Bloomsbury Group, Duncan Grant was one of the first British painters to take up the Post-Impressionist ideas of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. He shared a farmhouse at Charleston in Sussex with Clive and Venessa Bell and even after his affair with Venessa had ended their relationship remained close. He was great friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf and also a prominent member of the Omega Workshops run by Roger Fry (1866-1934). For many years he was Britian?s most acclaimed living painter and for a time he was the lover of Maynard Keynes, the economist, one of his many emotional entanglements in Bloomsbury.
"Seated Boy", circa 1921
pen, brush, ink and watercolour on paper
10.5 x 8.5 in / 26.5 x 21.5 cm
framed and gazed, 18 x 15.5 in. overall