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Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978) House and Stream image 1
Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978) House and Stream image 2
Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978) House and Stream image 3
Lot 166AR

Duncan Grant
(British, 1885-1978)
House and Stream

16 July 2025, 12:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978)

House and Stream
signed and dated 'D Grant/25' (lower left)
watercolour and pencil on paper
35 x 50cm (13 3/4 x 19 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Mr Howell
With St George's Gallery, London
Private Collection, U.K.

The present lot was painted in August 1925 when Duncan Grant visited Adrian Stephen, the brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and his wife Karin at their home in Essex. The watercolour depicts a side view of the King's Head, an ancient inn on the Essex marshes, which later became a private residence where the Stephen family spent many holidays. It and a few other houses occupied the remote Landermere Quay, a few miles south of Thorpe-le-Soken. The building was surrounded by salt marshes and estuaries. In the 1950s the Quay became the centre of production of the firm founded by Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson, who married Adrian and Karin Stephen's daughter Judith, known as Hammer Prints.

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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