[GRANT, Duncan].
Duncan Grant Signed School of Art Drawing Book.
London: E. Wolff & Son , .
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"Among Grant's earliest surviving drawings": Rare childhood sketchbook signed by English painter and textile designer Duncan Grant
Rare juvenile sketchbook containing early drawings by British painter Duncan Grant. Oblong octavo, original wrappers, the sketchbook contains a hand-colored map of South American, a Roman Ship annotated as such in Grant's young hand, an elaborate battle scene, an ink sketch of a steampship, a Twomblyesque scrawl in blue crayon with the young Grant practicing his signature, a handsome drawing in ink and crayon of a schooner at sunset, another pencil drawing of a roof of a house, and a few pages where images have been cut out, leaving their outlines. Signed by Grant on the front panel, both as a child and adult. An exceptional look at Grant's drawings.
Perhaps the most famous painter associated with the Bloomsbury scene, British painter Duncan is best known for his painting style, which developed in the wake of French post-impressionist exhibitions mounted in London in 1910. He often worked with, and was influenced by, another member of the group, art critic and artist Roger Fry. As well as painting landscapes and portraits, Fry designed textiles and ceramics. By 1911, Grant had met Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse and had become friendly with Virginia and Adrian Stephen (later Virginia Woolf) and through that connection, as well as being one of Lytton Strachey's lovers, became a fixture of the Bloomsbury scene, friendly and even cohabitating with Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West, and taking John Maynard Keynes as his lover. These are among his earliest surviving drawings and do indeed provide a little insight into his later aesthetic and artistic sensibilities, and the battle scene especially has hints of artistic genius and vision.
Duncan Grant Signed School of Art Drawing Book.
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