© Estate of Duncan Grant
Portrait of John Maynard Keynes
Duncan Grant
- Art Funded
- 2005
- Dimensions
- 56.5 x 46.3 cm
- Vendor
- Mr Bier
The artist and sitter were lovers from 1908 and remained good friends after.
Provenance
Agnew's, 1956; Mr Bier.
© Estate of Duncan Grant
The artist and sitter were lovers from 1908 and remained good friends after.
Agnew's, 1956; Mr Bier.
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.