Still life with a Tang horse

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery, London (the UK).

This still life is interesting due to the set of objects and the place where it was painted. The ceramic Tang horse can be seen in the interior of the artist’s apartment in the photographs, and the background of rectilinear blocks of contrasting colours is the walls of the workshop, which Fry organized for like-minded people. The artist wrote in one of his letters, “A studio is a kind of camouflage in ocher, black, ultramarine and pink colours to get different reasons.” The omega flower is also made in the workshop – Fry and artists from his circle used the same stylized paper products for still lifes.