About this lot
Description
Roger Fry (British 1866-1934)
Le Baou des Noir, Vence
signed and dated ‘Roger Fry / 1920’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
63.5 x 80cm
Footnote:
Set in the rugged hills of the Alpes Maritimes department and incised throughout with a labyrinth of medieval cobbled streets, Vence, formerly the Roman settlement of Vintium, attracted a flock of artists and writers including, D.H. Lawrence, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Christopher Wood, and Gwen Raverat.
The present lot was executed on one of several trips Fry made to Vence. On this particular trip, taken in the spring of 1920, Fry was accompanied by the French artist, Jean Marchand. In his 1920 publication of the influential work, Vision and Design, which comprised a collection of twenty-five essays he had written between 1900 and 1920, Fry dedicated a chapter to Marchand, whom he credited for discarding the 'scaffolding of cubism'.
Condition report:
The painting is lined using glue paste, the tension in the canvas is good. There is some minor cracking to the paint layer and some losses in the paint layer along the top, this is likely to have happened when the painting was cut from the stretcher to line. There are several small lumps/holes in the paint layer. These could be holes in the original canvas (?) The lumps appear to be a build up of glue. The picture is varnished using a natural resin which has now yellowed. There is a small area of overpaint in the sky which has recently been retouched. The painting has been recently cleaned and restored to a high standard.
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