Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

La Bergère, Cassis, Provence

Details

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
La Bergère, Cassis, Provence
signed and dated 'V Bell 1930' (lower left)
oil on board
17¾ x 14in. (45 x 35.5cm.)

Provenance

Lefevre Gallery, London.
Mrs. Sylvia Twomb, London.

Literature

J. Marsh, Bloomsbury Women, London, 1995, pl.81.

Exhibited

London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Recent Pictures by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell & Keith Baynes, June-July 1932, no.8 as 'The Farmhouse, Cassis'.

Lot Essay

'La Bergère' or 'The Shepherdess' was a small, disused farmworker's cottage that Vanessa Bell discovered in 1927 on a trip to Cassis. She took on a ten-year lease intending to use the house for painting trips to the area.
(see F. Spalding, Vanessa Bell, London, 1983, p.217)

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