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Katherine Cox (1887-1938)
Artist: GRANT, Duncan (1885-)
Grant studied at Westminster School of Art and in Paris. He discovered Post-Impressionism through Roger Fry's seminal exhibitions of 1910 and 1912. This portrait was painted in the year that Grant became the director of Fry's Omega Workshop. Its intense colours recall Matisse and the Fauves. Katherine or 'Ka' Cox (1887-1934) was a member of the circle of Rupert Brooke, known as the Neo-Pagans. A particular friend of Virginia Woolf, she frequently posed for Duncan Grant in 1912-13. Cox had a distinctive dress style and invariably wore a 'pince-nez.'
Image: © the estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS/Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2155
Creation/Production
GRANT, Duncan
Role: Artist
Date: 1913
Acquisition
Gift, 12/3/1965
Given by The Contemporary Art Society for Wales
Measurements
Height: 75.9cm
Width: 62.7cm
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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