Duncan Grant

1885-1978

A Street in Venice

Ref: 2401

Signed, dated and inscribed l.l.: D.Grant/Venice/1948

Oil on canvas laid to board, 55.5 by 37.5 cm (21 ¾ by 14 ¾ ins)

Exhibited: The Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, 1948, no.72

 

Grant’s visit to Venice with Vanessa Bell in late 1948 was his first following the end of the Second World War. His paintings from the trip explore the more oblique angles of the city’s canals and side streets and are notable for being suffused with the more autumnal light of the time of year. He made a lithograph from the same trip and another oil of a Venetian canal is in the Government Art Collection (GAC.no.1192) and as of 2025 hung in the British Embassy in Washington DC.

 

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