Still-Life with Dahlias in a Glass

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Still-Life with Dahlias in a Glass
signed 'D. Grant' (lower right)
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (22.8 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in the 1940s.

Provenance

Purchased at the 1945 exhibition by Sara Gilchrist.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 3 December 2003, lot 520, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Duncan Grant, June - July 1945, no. 12, as 'Flowers and blue plate'.
Leeds, City Art Gallery and Temple Newsam House, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The blue and white plate in the background of the present work is still at Charleston.
We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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