The Flower Gatherers

Details

DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978)
The Flower Gatherers
signed and dated 'D. Grant./'39' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 ¾ x 43 ½ in. (78 x 110.5 cm.)
Painted in 1939.

Provenance

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1942.
Paul Roche.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986.

Exhibited

Santiago, British Council, Palacio De Bellas Artes, Exposicion de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo, January - February 1943, p. 30, no. 25, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Montevideo, Subterraneo Municipal, August 1943; São Paulo, Departamento Municipal de Cultura, November 1943 - January 1944; and Peru, January 1944.
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery, Fifty-fifth Spring Exhibition of Modern Art, June - September 1946.

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Lot Essay

We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

The Flower Gatherers was chosen for the British Council's touring exhibition, Exposicion de Arte Britanico Contemporaneo, which travelled around South America between 1943-44. The selection of works was made by a committee which included Sir Kenneth Clark and Herbert Read. For the opening of the Montevideo part of the exhibition, The Flower Gatherers was chosen as the cover of the invitation (please contact the department for an image).

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