The Pond, Winter

Details

DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978)
The Pond, Winter
signed 'D Grant' (lower right)
oil on canvas-board
16 ¼ x 20 ¼ in. (41.2 x 51.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1943.

Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 June 1962, lot 97.
with Leger Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner's uncle, and by descent.

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

There are a number of paintings by Grant of the pond at Charleston, the artist’s home, in wintry conditions. Here the pond is icy, its surface emphasised by Grant’s use of a palette knife. The standing structure at left, known as the Gazebo, did not have long to live for it was blown down in the mid-1940s.

We are very grateful to Richard Shone for preparing this catalogue entry.

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