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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Still Life with T'ang Horse - Roger Fry
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A 1914 still life by Roger Fry, demonstrating his focus on formal structure, geometric shapes, and the interplay of colour in Post-Impressionist painting.
Roger Fry, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group and a critic who introduced Post-Impressionism to the British public, painted this still life in 1914. The composition demonstrates his interest in the formal qualities of objects rather than their narrative or sentimental value. Fry arranges a dark, slender bottle, a cylindrical white vessel, and a glass of water against a flat, ochre-toned background. To the left, a patterned fabric adds a vertical element, breaking the horizontal plane of the table.
The painting reflects Fry's engagement with the theories of Cézanne and the Fauves. He prioritises the structural relationships between the objects and the surrounding space. The colour palette is deliberate, using the deep blue of the bottle to anchor the composition against the warm, golden-yellow wall. The brushwork is controlled, focusing on the volume and weight of the items. Fry often included items from his own collection in his paintings, such as the T'ang dynasty ceramic horse that appears in other works from this period, though it is absent from this specific frame, suggesting the title refers to the broader series or the specific collection context of his studio.
By 1914, Fry had moved away from the traditional academic approach to painting. He sought to create a sense of order through colour and shape. The objects are rendered with a degree of simplification that emphasises their geometric properties. This work provides a clear example of his application of formalist principles, where the arrangement of shapes and the interplay of light and shadow take precedence over realistic detail. It is a study in balance, demonstrating how everyday items can be transformed into a coherent visual structure through the application of modern artistic theory.
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- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
- Framed prints arrive ready to hang
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Still Life with T'ang Horse - Roger Fry
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Roger Fry
Fry trained as a scientist at Cambridge before deciding he wanted to paint. He took a degree in natural sciences at King's College in 1888, then went to Italy and France to study art. The combination shaped everything he did afterward: he looked at paintings the way a chemist looks at compounds, trying to work out what made them hold together.
In 1910 he organised an exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London that showed Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso to the British public for the first time. He needed a name for what these painters were doing and coined the term Post-Impressionism, which is vague enough to have stuck. Critics called him mad. Several reminded the public that his wife was in an asylum, as though this were a relevant argument about colour theory. John Singer Sargent was so furious at being listed as a supporter of the exhibition that he published open letters attacking Fry. The two became enemies. Fry later denied Sargent the right to be called an artist.
He was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, having met Vanessa Bell and her husband Clive in 1910. A love affair with Vanessa followed. Virginia Woolf was later entrusted with writing his biography, a task she found difficult because the family asked her to leave out the affair.
In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops, a design collective that produced furniture, textiles, pottery and murals. The idea was that fine artists should design ordinary objects. Roger Fry's own paintings are competent but not especially memorable, which he seems to have understood. His real talent was seeing what mattered in other people's work and explaining it clearly. He wrote about African sculpture and Oceanic art when almost nobody in England took either seriously.
In 1910 he organised an exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London that showed Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso to the British public for the first time. He needed a name for what these painters were doing and coined the term Post-Impressionism, which is vague enough to have stuck. Critics called him mad. Several reminded the public that his wife was in an asylum, as though this were a relevant argument about colour theory. John Singer Sargent was so furious at being listed as a supporter of the exhibition that he published open letters attacking Fry. The two became enemies. Fry later denied Sargent the right to be called an artist.
He was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, having met Vanessa Bell and her husband Clive in 1910. A love affair with Vanessa followed. Virginia Woolf was later entrusted with writing his biography, a task she found difficult because the family asked her to leave out the affair.
In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops, a design collective that produced furniture, textiles, pottery and murals. The idea was that fine artists should design ordinary objects. Roger Fry's own paintings are competent but not especially memorable, which he seems to have understood. His real talent was seeing what mattered in other people's work and explaining it clearly. He wrote about African sculpture and Oceanic art when almost nobody in England took either seriously.
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