Design for lorry bill for Shell B.P.: Alfriston

Details

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Design for lorry bill for Shell B.P.: Alfriston
signed with initials and inscribed 'Poster Design VB' (on the reverse)
oil on paper
20¼ x 29½ in. (51.4 x 74.9 cm.)
Painted in 1930.

Provenance

The artist's estate.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1984.

Literature

F. Spalding, Vanessa Bell, London, 1983, p. 259.

Exhibited

New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 1.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Paintings at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 1.

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Lot Essay

Frances Spalding comments, 'Vanessa and Duncan were also two of the first artists to be employed by Jack Beddington when in 1929 he was put in charge of publicity by Shell-Mex Ltd. Duncan made St Ives bridge in Huntingdonshire his motif, while Vanessa chose Alfriston church in Sussex' (see F. Spalding, loc. cit.).

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