Roger Fry and His Circle

Provenance

Publications

The Artist's Family; by descent

Note: Despite the war, Fry managed to travel widely in France during the summer of 1915. Writing to Charles Vildrac he observed, 'I have not told you of what I have seen in the Marne and the Meuse, but in visiting each of the devastated places I understood a little what war means. Above all I am struck by the imbecility of it all. I can't stand people who persist in finding moral hygiene and all that in it. That is an evil and nauseating kind of idealism.'

At this period Fry was still invigorated by the influence of Post Impressionism and the paintings of Cezanne and Derain in particular.