Duncan Grant

South of France

1922

Not on display

Artist: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 648 x 806 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929
Reference: N04443

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During the 1920s-30s Grant regularly accompanied Vanessa Bell on painting trips to France, and this painting dates from a winter spent in a rented villa just outside St Tropez. Bell and Grant both painted several canvases there, and Bell's St Tropez canvas 'Interior with a Table' is also in this display. The two artists worked in separate rooms in order not to influence each other. In the early 1920s Grant worked with a range of warm browns and earth colours, rejecting the brilliant colours he and Bell had used before the First World War.

Gallery label, September 2004

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Catalogue entry

N04443 SOUTH OF FRANCE 1922

Inscr. ‘D. Grant/22’ b.l.
Canvas, 25 1/2×31 3/4 (65×81).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929.
Coll: John Tattersall, Dundee; purchased by the C.A.S. 1926.
Exh: Tate Gallery, May–June 1959, and Arts Council tour, 1959 (46, repr. pl.6).

Painted at Saint-Tropez during the winter of 1921–2 when the artist was staying in the South of France with Vanessa Bell; see her N05078.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I