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Ships in Harbour
Ships in Harbour

Ships in Harbour

Artist (1885 - 1978)
Date1928
MediumPastel on paper
Dimensions42.9 x 53.6 cm
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 1932. © The Estate of Duncan Grant.
Object number659
DescriptionDuncan Grant was a key figure of the Bloomsbury circle, a British group of modernist artists, writers and intellectuals, including Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf. Purser bought Ships in Harbour for the FNCI from Redfern Gallery in 1931, run by well-known New Zealand-born British collector and art dealer Rex Nan Kivell. The harbour depicted is La Ciotat in southern France.
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