Roger Fry
Italian Courtyard, 1913
Watercolour
10 x 14 inches
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Provenance
Margery Fry; by descent
Note: Roger Fry was at his most experimental in the years immediately after the two London Post-Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912 which he organised. In 1913 he opened the Omega Workshops in Fitzroy Square selling modern applied art and design and in that same year he holidayed with Duncan Grant and Clive and Vanessa Bell in Italy where he produced numerous paintings and drawings in a distinctly Post-Impressionist manner, emphasising elements of abstraction whilst employing a high pitched colour palette.