{"id":149073,"date":"2025-09-20T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:13:07","slug":"rare-painting-returned-to-its-former-studio-at-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149073\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare painting returned to its former studio at Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathaniel Hepburn MBE, director and chief executive of Charleston, said: &#8220;Bringing this painting back to Charleston is a moving and important moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It reunites us with a work that Duncan Grant lived with every day and adds a rare example of collaboration to our collection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also thanked the Arts Council England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flowers in a Jar, created during the period of Grant and Bergen&#8217;s love affair, stands as a record of Grant&#8217;s personal and artistic relationship with the Russian painter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting&#8217;s return also comes as Charleston launches Studio 100, a campaign to raise \u00a3250,000 for essential repairs and sustainability upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hepburn said the campaign could &#8220;conserve the studio itself and safeguard its legacy for generations to come&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Hepburn MBE, director and chief executive of Charleston, said: &#8220;Bringing this painting back to Charleston is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-149073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}