The Bloomsbury Group was an informal association of writers, artists and critics that took its name from the area in London frequented by its members. The key figure in the group’s art circle was the artist, critic and curator Roger Fry, who became the most influential art critic of the first half of the 20th century. His championing of the impressionists and post-impressionists in England was to influence a whole new generation of British painters.
Fry’s own style was very much influenced by the example of Cézanne, as seen in this painting Boats in a Harbour, which is thought to be La Ciotat, or Cassis in the South of France.
