Vanessa Bell

Details

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Vanessa Bell
signed twice 'D. Grant' (lower right and lower left)
oil on canvas
31½ x 17½ in. (80 x 44.4 cm.)
Painted in the 1930s.

Provenance

The artist.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
with Gallery Edward Harvane, London, where purchased by the present owner, February 1973.

Exhibited

London, Gallery Edward Harvane, Clive Bell at Charleston, May - June 1972, no. 19.

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Lot Essay

Painted in the early 1930s, this sketch of Vanessa Bell shows her dressed in long skirt, cape and sunhat, perhaps for a private theatrical performance at Charleston.

R.S.

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