Roger Fry 1866-1934 British School Oil on board. Landscape with trees. Signed lower right. Provenance: Ex.Michael Parkin Gallery London 1981, Private Collection UK. 34 by 23 cms.
Fry was an English painter, critic and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. He established his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French Art. The "discoverer" of Cezanne, he coined the term Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry".