Roger Fry and His Circle

Provenance

The Artist's Estate; Crane Kalman, London

Note: Marchand was included in the second Post-Impressionist exhibition but did not meet Roger Fry until 1919. In 1920 they painted together at Vence. Marchand was one of a number of younger French artists promoted in England by Roger Fry and purchased by collectors such as Sir Michael Sadler and Frank Hindley Smith. After the First World War these and other collectors moved on, under Fry's influence, from collecting the French nineteenth century landscapes of the Barbizon School to artists such as Marchand, Matisse and Picasso. Fry championed Marchand's throwing away of the 'scaffolding of cubism', and devoted a whole essay to him in Vision and Design (1920).