Vanessa Bell Painting
About this artwork
Painted in 1915, Grant depicts Bell working on a still-life painting of kitchenware. The setting was a houseboat-studio moored near their lodgings in West Wittering on the Sussex coast. Grant was introduced to Bell at the Friday Club, a free-thinking circle of artists and writers that she established with her siblings. Their relationship intensified in 1913 when the art critic Roger Fry (1866-1934) appointed them as co-directors of the Omega workshops. This may explain why Grant later incorrectly dated the canvas to that year.
Updated July 2022
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artist:Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978) Scottish
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title:Vanessa Bell Painting
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date created:1915 (incorrectly dated 1913)
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:76.20 x 55.90 cm; Framed: 98.60 x 78.50 x 7.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1965
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accession number:GMA 900
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Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant
Grant was born in Scotland but spent his childhood in Burma, and lived in England from 1895. He was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a loosely-knit circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, resident in the Bloomsbury area of London in the years before the First World War. Grant's...
