§ Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978) The White Coffee Pot signed lower right "D Grant", inscribed with title on the reverse, and with a sketch of a girl on the reverse oil on board, in a green and gold painted frame 81 x 60cm (32 x 23in) Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, 12 Galen Place, London, WC1. Born in 1885, Duncan Grant spent his early life in India, returning to Britain in 1893. Grant was encouraged by the French painter Simon Bussy, who later introduced Grant to Matisse in 1909. Grant, along with Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell (whom Grant had a daughter with, Angelica Garnett), was a central figure of the organisation of artists and writers called Bloomsbury. Perhaps a little dirty but fine.