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Roger Fry

Lady Seated in an Interior

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Roger Fry

1866 - 1934

Lady Seated in an Interior


oil on canvas

unframed: 46 by 38cm.; 18 by 15in.

framed: 64 by 55.5cm.; 25¼ by 21¾in.

Executed circa 1915.


We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.

Gifted by the Artist to Marion Richardson
Anthony d'Offay, London
Private Collection, London, until 1987
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, where acquired by the late owner in 1988
William Feaver, 'Art: Bloomsbury Painters, Images from the English Vanguard,' Architectural Digest, July 1988, illustrated p. 136
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art 1905-1930, 14 November 1987 - 9 January 1988, no. 123 (illustrated in exh. cat., p. 126)
Marion Richardson was an art teacher who became great friends with Fry. He held a show of her pupils’ drawings at the Omega Workshops.