Lot Essay
Bell created many such embroidery patterns in the 1920s and 1930s, some for her sister, Virginia Woolf, for dining-room chairs at her nearby home, Monks House.
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Design for chair seat, flowers
Details
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Design for chair seat, flowers
signed and inscribed 'VANESSA BELL/FLOWERS' (on the reverse)
gouache and oil on paper
21½ x 25 in. (54.6 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1930.
Design for chair seat, flowers
signed and inscribed 'VANESSA BELL/FLOWERS' (on the reverse)
gouache and oil on paper
21½ x 25 in. (54.6 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1930.
Provenance
The artist's estate.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1984.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1984.
Exhibited
London, Anthony d'Offay, Vanessa Bell, August - September 1983, no. 11.
New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 2.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 2.
New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 2.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 2.
Special notice
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