Oil paint on wood
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<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>
Dancers
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1953
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
dance
dress
female
field
group
groups
holding hands
landscape
leisure and pastimes
music and entertainment
nudes
objects
people
standing
woman
<p>Duncan Grant was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group. In 1909 he visited the Paris studio of Matisse, whose Dancers may have partly inspired this painting.</p><p>The vibrant colours and dynamic forms also reflect the influence of Gauguin, Cézanne and van Gogh. These were the chief artists introduced to British audiences through Roger Fry’s ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ exhibition, which was held at the Grafton Galleries in London between 1910 and 1911.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
2001-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-08
French Influence on British Art
Collection based display
3 July 2009 – 18 November 2010
2010-11-18
3 July 2009 – 18 November 2010
2010-11-18
2009-07-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-07-03
The Bloomsbury Group
Collection based display
16 April 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
16 April 2011 – 9 October 2011
2011-10-09
2011-04-16
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (Brighton, UK)
http://www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info
2011-04-16
Radical Bloomsbury: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
Loan-out
Dancers
support: 533 × 660 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1953
<p>Duncan Grant was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group.  In 1909 he visited the Paris studio of Matisse, whose Dancers may have partly inspired this painting.
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<br/>The vibrant colours and dynamic forms also reflect the influence of Gauguin, Cézanne and van Gogh.  These were the chief artists introduced to British audiences through Roger Fry’s ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ exhibition, which was held at the Grafton Galleries in London between 1910 and 1911.
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N06181</b> DANCERS <i>c.</i> 1910–11
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Oil on wood, 21×26 (53×66).
<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1953.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the artist by Adrian Stephen and sold soon after to Edward Marsh.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
(?) C.A.S., <i>Paintings and Drawings</i>, Grosvenor House, June–July 1923 (144); N.E.A.C. <i>Retrospective Exhibition</i>, January–February 1925 (109), and Manchester, April–May 1925 (137); Paul Guillaume Gallery, February–March 1929 (3); <i>Anthology of English Painting, 1900–1931</i>, French Gallery, November 1931 (16); Venice Biennale, 1932 (British Pavilion, 29 or 35); British Council, <i>Empire Exhibition</i>, Johannesburg, 1936 (445, repr.); <i>Franco-British Exhibition of Contemporary Art</i>, Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, 1939 (160); <i>The Collection of the late Sir Edward Marsh</i>, Leicester Galleries, May 1953 (61); Tate Gallery, May–June 1959 (15).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, XCVII, 1929, p.178.</p>
<p>Painted <i>c.</i> 1910–11 at Fitzroy Square. A later version, larger in scale (27×36 in.) but less finished, was in the <i>Second <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/post-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Post-Impressionism'"><span>Post-Impressionist</span></a> Exhibition</i>, October–December 1912 (81), and was bought by Hilton Young (later Lord Kennet of the Dene); it now belongs to his son.</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
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items dance dress female field group groups holding hands landscape leisure and pastimes music and entertainment nudes objects people standing woman