Portrait of John Maynard Keynes

Duncan Grant

Art Funded: 2005
Dimensions: 56.5 x 46.3 cm
Vendor: Mr Bier

Portrait of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) painted at Charleston during the First World War where Keynes is reputed to be drafting a crucial telegram negotiating an American loan to secure Britain's wartime survival.

The artist and sitter were lovers from 1908 and remained good friends after.

Provenance

Agnew's, 1956; Mr Bier.

Oil on canvas

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Portrait of John Maynard Keynes (funded in 2005) was painted by his sometime lover Duncan Grant during the First World War. It purportedly shows Keynes drafting an all-important telegram to America to obtain the loan that would secure Britain's survival.

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