This lot consists of a hand painted Oil on Wood rendered in style of the English artist Roger Fry (1866-1934). Painting signed at the lower right corner: Roger Fry 29
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the “associated ideas” conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as “incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ...In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry”. The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.

DIMENSIONS:
Unframed 11.8"x13.3" (30x34cm)
Framed 13.7"x14.9" (35x38cm)

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection

Overall good condition considering the age of the artwork. There are some peeled off paint parts can be noticed. Please examine all photos carefully. Lots that do not carry established documented provenance are described in the catalogue as "in the style of". Authentication has not been established nor is it implied.