Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/duncan-grant-1203" aria-label="More by Duncan Grant" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Duncan Grant</a>
South France
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929
architecture
building - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
farmland
landscape
places
road
Saint-Tropez - non-specific
townscapes / man-made features
tree
<p>During the 1920s-30s Grant regularly accompanied Vanessa Bell on painting trips to France, and this painting dates from a winter spent in a rented villa just outside St Tropez. Bell and Grant both painted several canvases there, and Bell's St Tropez canvas 'Interior with a Table' is also in this display. The two artists worked in separate rooms in order not to influence each other. In the early 1920s Grant worked with a range of warm browns and earth colours, rejecting the brilliant colours he and Bell had used before the First World War.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
South of France
support: 648 × 806 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1929
<p>During the 1920s-30s Grant regularly accompanied Vanessa Bell on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> trips to France, and this painting dates from a winter spent in a rented villa just outside St Tropez. Bell and Grant both painted several <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> there, and Bell's St Tropez canvas 'Interior with a Table' is also in this display. The two artists worked in separate rooms in order not to influence each other. In the early 1920s Grant worked with a range of warm browns and earth colours, rejecting the brilliant colours he and Bell had used before the First World War.</p>
Display caption
2004-09-02T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N04443</b> SOUTH OF FRANCE 1922
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘D. Grant/22’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 25 1/2×31 3/4 (65×81).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1929.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> John Tattersall, Dundee; purchased by the C.A.S. 1926.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Tate Gallery, May–June 1959, and Arts Council tour, 1959 (46, repr. pl.6).</p>
<p>Painted at Saint-Tropez during the winter of 1921–2 when the artist was staying in the South of France with Vanessa Bell; see her <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-interior-with-a-table-n05078" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05078</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture building - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) farmland landscape places road Saint-Tropez - non-specific townscapes / man-made features tree