Still Life with Cyclamen
Artist: Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885-1978)
Date: c. 1914
Medium: Oil on board
Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Description
One of the Bloomsbury Group, Scottish born artist Duncan Grant was a decorator and designer as well as a painter. He was influenced by developments in French art and exhibited in the 1912 'Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition' at Grafton Galleries, London. The catalogue cover was designed by artists Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell and drawn by Grant.
In various ways Grant sought an approach to Modernism. The gentle, delicate fragmented light and colour of 'Still life with Cyclamen' is typical of the English sensibility - gentler, and more tentative, intuitive and inconsistent than the French, where a particular theory guided the total effect.
