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Window, South of France (1928)

Duncan Grant

oil on canvas

Manchester Art Gallery

Window, South of France (1928)

© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Details

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

A view through an open cottage window in the south of France, across sunlit fields. Inside the cottage the walls are decorated with loud floral paper. There is a wooden kitchen chair with a wicker seat positioned by window, and a vase of red flowers on the windowsill. The yellow tones of the outside landscape suggest the strength of the French sunlight in this idyllic countryside landscape.

Dimensions:

100 x 81.1 cm

Accession Number:

1930.179

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased by George Montagu, Lord Sandwich (1874-1962) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1929; presented to Manchester Art Gallery, 1930

Relationship:

George Charles Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich Manchester Art Gallery

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Duncan Grant
Window, South of France (1928)

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