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A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist) - Roger Fry
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This oil on canvas by Roger Fry, titled 'A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist)', captures an interior scene with paintings on the walls, rendered in a loose, expressive Post-Impressionist style.
Roger Fry (1866-1934) was a British artist and critic, influential in promoting modern art in Britain. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and is best known for coining the term 'Post-Impressionism' and for organising the 1910 exhibition 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists' at the Grafton Galleries in London. This exhibition introduced artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh to the British public. Fry also founded the Omega Workshops, a design collective that produced furniture, textiles, and decorative arts. His own paintings often explored colour and form, reflecting his interest in the formal qualities of art. 'A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist)' depicts an interior space, possibly a gallery or a domestic setting, with paintings displayed on the walls. The composition is structured around a series of receding planes, drawing the viewer's eye through the open doorway to a room beyond. A figure sits on a dark sofa in the foreground, seemingly absorbed in reading. The colour palette is dominated by muted greens and browns, with touches of brighter colours in the paintings. The brushwork is loose and expressive, characteristic of Fry's Post-Impressionist style.
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A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist) - Roger Fry
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From $29.00 USD
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From $29.00 USD
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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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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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