The dining room window, Charleston

Details

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
The dining room window, Charleston
signed with initials 'VB' (lower left), signed again with initials 'VB' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 x 31 in. (55.9 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1940.

Provenance

The artist's daughter, Mrs Angelica Garnett.
with Adams Gallery, London.
with New Art Centre, London.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in August 1980.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Bloomsbury, London, Tate Gallery, November 1999 - January 2000, p. 19, illustrated.

Exhibited

Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Paintings by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, April - May 1966, no. 67.
Rye, Art Gallery, Artists of Bloomsbury, June - August 1967, no. 79.
London, Anthony d'Offay, Paintings from Charleston by Vanessa Bell, 1980.
New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 6.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 6.

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Lot Essay

This double portrait depicts Duncan Grant, seated on the left, and his and Vanessa Bell's daughter Angelica, on the right. Angelica was born on Christmas Day 1918, and was twenty-two years old in 1940, when the painting was executed, two years before she married the writer David Garnett.

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