Duncan Grant
Marseilles Harbour
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Duncan Grant
1885 - 1978
Marseilles Harbour
signed D. Grant and dated /29 (lower right)
oil on paper laid on board
unframed: 38.5 by 47 cm. 15¼ by 18½ in.
framed: 52 by 62 cm. 20½ by 24½ in.
Executed in 1929.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by Kerrison Preston Esq., January 1931
Sale, Duke’s, Dorechester, 31 January 2026, lot 541, where acquired by the present owner
During the late 1920s and occasionally thereafter Duncan Grant painted in Toulon and Marseilles along the French coast west of Cassis where he and Vanessa Bell had a house. He appreciated these short journeys as breaks from the sometimes crowded life at Cassis.
This painting shows an unusually quiet view of the entrance to the harbour of Marseilles’s Vieux Port, showing the Fort St Jean to the right.
Richard Shone
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