Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Vanessa Bell
Purchased 1943
actions: postures and motions
adults
agricultural
architecture
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
Bell, Vanessa
chair
curtain
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farm
Firle
Firle, Charleston
furnishings
hands crossed
individuals: female
interiors
named individuals
objects
people
places
portraits
rug
sitting
studio
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, East
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
woman
work and occupations
workspaces
painting oil paint canvas
1 April 2002 – 31 October 2002
2002-10-31
1 April 2002 – 31 October 2002
2002-10-31
2002-04-01
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2002-04-01
2002 Open Season
Loan-out
3 April 2003 – 31 October 2003
2003-10-31
3 April 2003 – 31 October 2003
2003-10-31
2003-04-03
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2003-04-03
Just Friends and Lovers? 2003 Season
Loan-out
29 November 2003 – 24 January 2004
2004-01-24
29 November 2003 – 24 January 2004
2004-01-24
2003-11-29
Wolverhampton Art Gallery (Wolverhampton, UK)
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
2003-11-29
Bloomsbury Group
Loan-out
1 April 2004 – 31 October 2004
2004-10-31
1 April 2004 – 31 October 2004
2004-10-31
2004-04-01
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2004-04-01
Just Friends and Lovers?
Loan-out
23 March 2005 – 31 October 2005
2005-10-31
23 March 2005 – 31 October 2005
2005-10-31
2005-03-23
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2005-03-23
2005 Season
Loan-out
2 March 2006 – 14 May 2006
2006-05-14
2 March 2006 – 14 May 2006
2006-05-14
2006-03-02
National Museum of Fine Arts (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.nationalmuseum.se
2006-03-02
Artist couples at the turn of the 19th century
Loan-out
Vanessa Bell
support: 1016 × 610 mm
frame: 1158 × 736 × 82 mm
Purchased 1943
<p><b>N05405</b> VANESSA BELL 1942
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 40×24 (102×61).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1943.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Tate Gallery, May–June 1959, and Arts Council tour, 1959 (74).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Allan Gwynne-Jones, <i>Portrait Painters</i>, 1950, p.36, pl.152; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Lewis to Moore</i>, 1956, p.57.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>The Windmill</i>, 1, No.1, 1944, p.38; Mortimer, 1944, pl.25 (in colour); Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.63.</p>
<p>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the painter and designer Vanessa Bell, painted at Charleston in 1942.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults agricultural architecture artist, painter arts and entertainment Bell, Vanessa chair curtain England England, South East England, Southern farm Firle Firle, Charleston furnishings hands crossed individuals: female interiors named individuals objects people places portraits rug sitting studio Sussex, East Sussex - non-specific UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions woman work and occupations workspaces