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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Portrait of John Maynard Keynes
Portrait of John Maynard Keynes Portrait of John Maynard Keynes

© Estate of Duncan Grant


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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Funded in 2007, Iceland Poppies was restored to Charleston where it had previously hung for over four decades. A rare early work by Vanessa Bell, the understated symbolism and 'concentrated mood' of this still life suggest an autobiographical reading.

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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