Date:1926
Description:Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
A Venetian Window, 1926
Oil on canvas
690mm x 490mm
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1945
In 1926, Bell, visited Venice, where Duncan Grant was exhibiting at the Biennale. The elder sister of writer Virginia Woolf, she was at the heart of the Bloomsbury group, married first to Clive Bell, with whom she had two sons, and subsequently living at Charleston, the country home she shared with Duncan Grant, with whom she had a daughter. Following the revelations made by Roger Fry’s exhibitions of Post-Impressionist art in 1910 and 1912, Bell’s work became simplified and often non-representational. Her paintings tend to be beautifully composed and often contemplative. Although less recognised than Grant during her lifetime, she is now acknowledged as an artist at the forefront of the avant-garde.
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Donor ref: LEAMG : A256.1945 (64/23911)
Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
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