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Duncan Grant | Still Lifes

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Throughout his long life, Duncan Grant found in the still-life genre an unfailing source of visual interest. Using his immediate surroundings as subject matter, carefully arranged to yield an appropriate composition, he transposed homely settings—of wall paper, painted furniture, hanging textiles, cut flowers, tablewear—into formally compact paintings and drawings.
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Throughout his long life, Duncan Grant found in the still-life genre an unfailing source of visual interest.
Using his immediate surroundings as subject matter, carefully arranged to yield an appropriate composition, he transposed homely settings—of wall paper, painted furniture, hanging textiles, cut flowers, tablewear—into formally compact paintings and drawings.

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