Parrot Tulips (1911)

Duncan Grant

oil on panel

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Panel

Physical Object Description:

Painting of yellow and red parrot tulips on table covered by a red table cloth.

Dimensions:

49 x 52 cm

Accession Number:

1458

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1954

Scheme:

Sir Edward Marsh Bequest (1953)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Carfax Gallery, St James's, London by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953), 1911; by whom bequeathed to the Contemporary Art Society, 1953; presented to Southampton City Art Gallery, 1954

Relationship:

Carfax Gallery, London Southampton City Art Gallery Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh

Subject:

Flowers, Still Life

Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) known as 'Eddie' was a civil servant, patron and elected buyer and chairman of the Contemporary Art Society (1936-52). He first began buying contemporary British art in 1911 with Duncan Grant’s Parrot Tulips from the Carfax Gallery, St James’s, London (now in Southampton City Art Gallery) and bequeathed his modern collection of 342 works to the CAS. The influence of the French Post-Impressionist painters is evident. Grant would have experienced them at Roger Fry’s first exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists at the Grafton Galleries, London in the autumn of 1910. Although Grant had been studying art in Paris in 1906-07 he was yet to embrace the avant-garde, and indeed many of his fellow Bloomsbury Group artists had not either until then.

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