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Miss Anne Popham
Purchased 1944
actions: postures and motions
adults
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Bell, Anne Olivier
chair
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Popham, Anne Olivier
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<p>The sitter, Anne Olivier Popham, was a student of art history at the Courtauld Institute. In 1952 she married Quentin Bell and later edited the diaries of his aunt, Virginia Woolf. This portrait was painted at the same period as Claude Rogers's of Mrs Chilver. Comparison reveals the greater stillness, gravity and austerity of Bell's image, qualities in common with the art of William Coldstream, with whom he shared a studio at this time.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 September 2005 – 31 October 2005
2005-10-31
1 September 2005 – 31 October 2005
2005-10-31
2005-09-01
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2005-09-01
Graham Bell
Loan-out
Miss Anne Popham
support: 762 × 635 mm
frame: 941 × 823 × 85 mm
Purchased 1944
<p>The sitter, Anne Olivier Popham, was a student of art history at the Courtauld Institute. In 1952 she married Quentin Bell and later edited the diaries of his aunt, Virginia Woolf. This <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> was painted at the same period as Claude Rogers's of Mrs Chilver. Comparison reveals the greater stillness, gravity and austerity of Bell's image, qualities in common with the art of William Coldstream, with whom he shared a studio at this time.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05461</b> PORTRAIT OF A LADY 1937–8
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Graham Bell’ b.r
<br/>Canvas, 30×25 (76×64).
<br/>Purchased from the sitter (Knapping Fund) 1944.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sir Kenneth Clark; Miss Anne Olivier Popham.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Paintings by Graham Bell, Thomas Carr ... Geoffrey Tibble</i>, Rosenberg and Helft, September–October 1938 (2), as ‘Miss P, 1938’; A.I.A. Gallery, 1939 (catalogue untraced); C.A.S., <i>The Euston Road Group</i>, Oxford, May–June 1941 (24, as ‘Miss O. Popham, 1940’, or 25<i>a</i>, as ‘Miss D. Popham, 1938’, both lent by Sir Kenneth Clark).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Sir Kenneth Clark, <i>Paintings of Graham Bell</i>, 1947, No.8, repr. pl.2.</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 Miss Anne Olivier Popham (Mrs Quentin Bell) painted in the winter of 1937–8 (letter from the sitter, 22 March 1944).</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults art historian arts and entertainment author Bell, Anne Olivier chair domestic furnishings individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors literary named individuals objects people Popham, Anne Olivier portraits sitting woman work and occupations