Framed drawing of a Dog
Price: $1,750.00
Pen and Ink Drawing. [N.d.]. Fine.
3 3/8" x 5 1/8" drawing in a 12 1/4" x 17 3/8" frame. Original ballpoint pen drawing of a sitting dog, with a very light wash of light blue color, in a red and gilt frame, matted in white and blue. Fine. Overall, a charming piece by a Bloomsbury artist. Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a Scottish painter and designer and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He was cousins with Lytton Strachey and had a 50-year creative and romantic partnership with artist Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s sister and her dust jacket designer. Grant and Bell had a child together, Angelica, in 1918. Provenance: author and historian Gretchen Gerzina (b. 1950), whose Carrington: A Life (1989) was the "first [biography] to consider Carrington at length" (Publisher’s Weekly). Gerzina acquired this drawing from Sandra Lummis, a London-based art dealer who specialized in Bloomsbury material. The gallery noted on the verso of frame that this work was a gift from the artist to the previous owner. Gerzina has taught at Dartmouth, Barnard, and Vassar, and her other books include Black England: Life Before Emancipation (1995) and Frances Hodgson Burnett (2004). Item #DGBB001
