£688
MODERN MADE | Design on the Move: Posters from the Shell Heritage Art Collection | 655
Auction: 29 April 2021 at 19:00 BST
lithographic poster, 1932, condition A; not backed, framed
Literature:
Hewitt, The Shell Poster Book, 50.
Duncan Grant studied at Westminster School of Art and at the Slade. He was one of the first English artists to be influenced by Fauvism, particularly by Cezanne, and he exhibited at the second Post-Impressionist exhibition in 1912. He joined Roger Fry in 1913 as director of the Omega Workshops. He was part of the Bloomsbury Group and lived with the painter Vanessa Bell with whom he collaborated on projects, including designs for textiles, pottery, stage sets and costumes and a series of designs for the Queen Mary in 1935 which Cunard rejected.
In his typical style, Grant here portrays the 15th Century bridge in the picturesque market town of St.Ives, in Cambridgeshire, 12 miles north-west of Cambridge.