Live Auction 538920th Century British Art
Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Lot 111

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

Portrait of Helen Anrep

Closed16 July 2008

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GBP 7,500

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Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Portrait of Helen Anrep
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1940.

The Artist's Estate.
with Bloomsbury Workshop, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work is a copy painted in the late 1940s of an earlier painting circa 1930 of Helen Anrep, the lover of Roger Fry and patron of the Euston Road School of painters. The work is listed in Vanessa Bell's inventory of pictures at Charleston in 1951 as Helen (2nd version).

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