Design for fabric

Details

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Design for fabric
stamped with studio stamp 'VB' (lower right)
black ink and watercolour
12 x 18½ in. (30.5 x 47 cm.)
Executed circa 1946.

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Purchased by the present owner from the 1992 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, Spink, Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell Design and Decoration 1910-1960, October - November 1991, no. 93.
New York, Davis & Langdale, Vanessa Bell, October - November 1992, no. 63.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, ex-catalogue.

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Lot Essay

In 1946 a plan was drawn up by Duncan Grant for the possible formation of a second Omega Workshops. The proposal never matured but Grant and Bell made several designs for carpets and fabrics, of which this is an example.

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