Duncan Grant
Circa 1912
Pencil and oil paint on board
65 x 56 cm
Duncan Grant was greatly inspired by the French artist Paul Cézanne, whose radical work he encountered at two groundbreaking exhibitions organised by Roger Fry in 1910 and 1912. Here, Grant experiments with short, parallel brushstrokes like those favoured by Cézanne. With this technique, he breaks up the surface of the painting, turning this dinner table arrangement into a strange and unfamiliar landscape of colour and form.