* DUNCAN GRANT (SCOTTISH 1885 - 1978) STUDY OF PAT NELSON

charcoal on paper, initialled mounted, framed and under glass image size 66cm x 40cm, overall size 77cm x 51cm Provenance: Acquired from the Artist by Douglas Turnbaugh; Property from the Collection of Douglas Turnbaugh; Hindman Auctioneers Note 1: Douglas Blair Turnbaugh was a Director and Choreographer. He was great friends with Duncan grant and produced Grants Biography “Duncan grant and the Bloomsbury Group” Note 2: The sitter in this study Pat Nelson, came to Britain in 1937 to work as a valet in Wales. In about 1938 he was studying law in London as well as working as an artist's model for Wolfe and Duncan Grant. He became Duncan Grant's lover in the late 1930s. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted with the Pioneer Corps, was posted to France with the British Expeditionary Force and was injured and captured near Dunkirk. He was held in various prison camps, including Stalag 344, until his release in late 1944. On his return he resumed his friendship with Duncan Grant, and they would write to each other over the next 25 years until Nelson's death in 1963'. (A Model's Life, Spaces of Black Modernism, Tate Britain)