Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885-1978) Ornamental urns in Charleston garden oil on canvas, signed and

Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885-1978) Ornamental urns in Charleston garden oil on canvas, signed and dated `D Grant \ 72` lower left, `No 2` in red chalk verso 20½ x 17½in. (52 x 44.5cm.) * Charleston was the East Sussex home of Duncan Grant and his wife Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf), both pivotal figures within the Bloomsbury Group. Grant was also a founding member of the Camden Town Group in 1911, exhibited with the Grafton Group in 1913 and became a member of the London Group in 1919. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1926 and 1932, and his work was included in the Coronation Exhibition of Contemporary British Artists at Agnew and Sons, London, in 1937. The Tate Gallery held a retrospective of his work in 1959 and an exhibition at the Tate Gallery was held in 1975 in honour of his 90th birthday, together with an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The urns in this painting can be seen in a photograph on the cover of `The Garden at Charleston: A Bloomsbury Garden through the Seasons` by Sue Snell, pub. 2010 by Frances Lincoln.