Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
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>
Lytton Strachey Crime and Punishment
Purchased 1947
actions: postures and motions
adults
author
book - non-specific
British
Cambridge Apostles
chair
clothing and personal items
critic
domestic
flower
furnishings
glove
homosexuality
individuals: male
interiors
leisure and pastimes
literary
living room
man
named groups
named individuals
nationality
objects
people
plants and flowers
portraits
reading
reading, writing, printed matter
recreational activities
sex and relationships
sitting
society
Strachey, Lytton
table
vase
vessels and containers
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
14 April 2003 – 4 May 2004
2004-05-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-14
Private Lives
Collection based display
Lytton Strachey. Verso: Crime and Punishment
support: 533 × 660 mm
Purchased 1947
<p><b>N05764</b>	Recto: LYTTON STRACHEY <i>c.</i> 1909
<br/> 	Verso: MARJORIE STRACHEY
<br/> 
<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 21×26 (53×66).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1947.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Tate Gallery, May–June 1959 (9).</p>
<p>Lytton Strachey, the critic and biographer, and his sister Marjorie, also a writer, were Duncan Grant's cousins; it was through the Strachey family that Grant entered the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/b/bloomsbury" title="Glossary definition for 'Bloomsbury '"><span>Bloomsbury</span></a> circle. These <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> were painted <i>c.</i> 1909 at the Stracheys' home in Belsize Park Gardens. For a note on Lytton Strachey see Lamb, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lamb-lytton-strachey-t00118" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T00118</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
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults author book - non-specific British Cambridge Apostles chair clothing and personal items critic domestic flower furnishings glove homosexuality individuals: male interiors leisure and pastimes literary living room man named groups named individuals nationality objects people plants and flowers portraits reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities sex and relationships sitting society Strachey, Lytton table vase vessels and containers work and occupations