Vase of Flowers with Lemon

Maker Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978)

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Date1913

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm.)

DescriptionThis painting portrays a still life on a mantelpiece with a vase of flowers, papers, and a lemon in Grant's signature style consisting of bright colors and bold lines.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Frances Crandall Dyke Bequest, Caillouette Acquisition Endowment for British and Continental Art, Wark Art Acquisition Endowment, and Florence M. Quinn and Mrs. Cynthia Sclater-Booth by exchange

Label TextTwo versions of this still life on a mantelpiece—a vase of flowers, papers, and a lemon—were painted by Grant in 1913. This painting displays his signature style consisting of bright colors and bold lines influenced by the works of the Fauves and Cézanne in the French Post-Impressionism. This painting was made the same year Grant started co-directing with painter Vanessa Bell the Omega Workshops, an avant-garde design enterprise which produced furniture, pottery, and textiles designed by various young artists including Grant and Bell themselves who sought to remove what they considered the false divisions between the fine and decorative arts.

Status

On view

Object number2015.27