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Poster advertising the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 1912

Poster
1912 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Grant, Duncan (artist)
Vanessa Bell (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed)

This poster advertises the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1912. The exhibition was organised by the artist and critic Roger Fry (1866-1934). It was the first influential attempt to introduce the British public to works by avant-garde British artists (such as Eric Gill, Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis and Fry himself) alongside Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cézanne and others. Duncan Grant’s poster for this exhibition incorporated both geometric patterning and simplification of form. It anticipated stylistic features of artefacts produced in the Omega Workshops, which Fry founded in 1913.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
SCRAN
Woman Artist
Object type
Poster
TitlePoster advertising the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 1912 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Line block print
Ink
Paper
Line Block Printing
Brief description
Poster advertising the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries, London, designed by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, line block print, 1912
Physical description
Line block print poster advertising the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries, London, 5 October-31 December 1912.
Dimensions
  • Height: 856mm
  • Width: 576mm
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 49.5cm
Second pair of dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Style
Post-Impressionist
Credit line
Given by Miss Margery Fry, J. P.
Object history
Vanessa Bell had the idea of the poster featuring a shocked woman with hands raised to her face, which was realised by Duncan Grant.
Subjects depicted
Primitivism
Patterns (Design Elements)
Exhibitions
Summary
This poster advertises the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1912. The exhibition was organised by the artist and critic Roger Fry (1866-1934). It was the first influential attempt to introduce the British public to works by avant-garde British artists (such as Eric Gill, Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis and Fry himself) alongside Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cézanne and others. Duncan Grant’s poster for this exhibition incorporated both geometric patterning and simplification of form. It anticipated stylistic features of artefacts produced in the Omega Workshops, which Fry founded in 1913.
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Conversation Anglaise le Groupe de Bloomsbury Paris: Gallimard, 2009. ISBN: 9782070127306.
  • P.104 Lea Vergine, Un Altro Tempo. Tra Decadentismo e Modern Style Rovereto, 2012 ISBN: 978-884281862-5.
  • Radical Bloomsbury : the art of Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell, 1905-1925. Brighton & Hove : Royal Pavilion & Museums, [2011]. 19 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 21 cm.
Other number
16/C11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.737-1955

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2003
Record URL
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