Fontcreuse

Artist Duncan Grant (Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Scotland, 1885 - 1978)

Datec. 1934

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 81.7 cm, Width: 99.5 cm
Frame: Height: 102 cm, Width: 119.3 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1934 with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 10

Object numberABDAG002468

Keywords

About MeFontcreuse is a seventeenth century chateau in the South of France and on its surrounding land was a cottage called 'La Bergère', which Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell used as a studio from 1928. They had long planned to spend the winter months in the south of France and the cottage acted as a refuge from their hectic city lives, both for them and for friends such as the Woolfs.

Both artists were fascinated with the surrounding landscape and painted it on numerous occasions. Grant's use of dashes of pure colour, applied in parallel strokes, illustrates his debt to the Post Impressionists and to Vincent van Gogh in particular.

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Fontcreuse is a seventeenth-century chateau in the South of France. On its surrounding land was a cottage called ‘La Bergere’ which Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell used as a studio from 1928.

Exhibitions

Gallery 10 - French Impressions