A rare painting has been returned to its former home in East Sussex as part of a campaign to restore its artist’s studio 100 years after it was built.<\/p>\n
Flowers in a Jar by Duncan Grant and George Bergen will be on public display at Charleston, a gathering point for some of the 20th Century’s most radical artists.<\/p>\n
The painting spent more than four decades in private collections before resurfacing earlier this year, when it sold for eight times its estimate at Gorringe’s auction house in Lewes.<\/p>\n
The painting’s return to Charleston has been made possible by individual donors and a government fund to help regional museums acquire objects relating to the arts.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel Hepburn MBE, director and chief executive of Charleston, said: “Bringing this painting back to Charleston is a moving and important moment.<\/p>\n
“It reunites us with a work that Duncan Grant lived with every day and adds a rare example of collaboration to our collection.”<\/p>\n
He also thanked the Arts Council England.<\/p>\n
Flowers in a Jar, created during the period of Grant and Bergen’s love affair, stands as a record of Grant’s personal and artistic relationship with the Russian painter.<\/p>\n
The painting’s return also comes as Charleston launches Studio 100, a campaign to raise \u00a3250,000 for essential repairs and sustainability upgrades.<\/p>\n
Mr Hepburn said the campaign could “conserve the studio itself and safeguard its legacy for generations to come”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare painting has been returned to its former home in East Sussex as part of a campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-242823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115239825155559059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}