Lilies

Roger Fry is best remembered as an influential critic and writer. He organised the two important Post-Impressionist exhibitions in London, in 1910 and 1912, which introduced modern French and British painting to an outraged British public. Paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, spanning 30 years of French painting, were brought to an audience used to conventional Victorian and Edwardian art.Fry's own work was derivative and reflected his current critical interests; this painting owes much to Cézanne.