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The paintings were part of the decorative scheme for the sitting room of Mortimer’s London flat.  Grant and Bell were co-directors of the Omega workshops, founded in 1913 by fellow Bloomsbury Group member Roger Fry. With the Omega firm, they sought to break down what they saw as the false distinction between the fine and decorative arts, bringing to their designs the visual language of Post Impressionism in the use of bright colours and bold, simplified forms.","physicalDescription":"Decorative painting of an upturned hat containing tulips with curtains on each side.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Grant, Duncan","id":"A3128"},"association":{"text":"painter (artist)","id":"AAT25136"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"English","id":"AAT111178"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BP0758"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"B","id":"THES304912"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil painting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1925","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1925-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"P.2-1953","id":"O120881"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"P.3-1953","id":"O132416"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"P.4-1953","id":"O132415"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"P.6-1953","id":"O134547"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Given by Raymond Mortimer","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"19.75","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"44.5","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Summary catalogue of British Paintings</i>, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Raymond Mortimer, 1953\n\nHistorical significance: This decorative mural painting is one of a set of five given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1953 by Raymond Mortimer, one of the most notable critics of his generation, literary editor of the <u>New Statesman</u> (1935-47), and chief reviewer for the <u>Sunday Times</u> (1948-1952). The paintings all came from Mortimer's sitting room at 6, Endsleigh Place, London WC1, where they had formed part of the room's decoration since their execution in 1925 by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell (Mortimer had moved out of the flat in 1952 to a house in Islington, prompting the gift). In asking Grant and Bell to decorate his flat, Mortimer was inspired by the decorative paintings which they had done in the flat belonging to his friend Clive Bell (Vanessa's estranged husband) at 50 Gordon Square. \r\n\r\nGrant and Bell were co-directors of the Omega workshops which was founded by Roger Fry in 1913. With the Omega firm they sought to break down what they saw as the false distinction between the fine and decorative arts, bringing to their designs the visual language of Post Impressionism: bright colours and bold, simplified forms. \r\n\r\nIn 1944 Raymond Mortimer contributed a volume on Duncan Grant to the influential Penguin Modern Painters series.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil painting, Composition with Tulips and Hat, by Duncan Grant, 1925, part of set by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant for the sitting room of 6 Endsleigh Place, London, WC1","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Conversation Anglaise le Groupe de Bloomsbury</u> Paris: Gallimard, 2009. 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