Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Contemporary Art Society
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/vanessa-bell-731" aria-label="More by Vanessa Bell" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Vanessa Bell</a>
Chrysanthemums
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
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<p>Bell often painted flowerpieces and frequently used flowers in her interior decorative work. Stylised flowers are a dominant theme in the dust jacket designs she designed for books written by her sister, Virginia Woolf.</p><p>Bell rejected the brighter colours she’d used before the war, and in the 1920s and 30s painted flowerpieces and still lifes with rich but sombre colour harmonies. The vase of flowers here is placed on a mirror.</p><p>This work was presented to the Tate by the Contemporary Art Society in 1924 and was the first work by Bell to enter the Collection.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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
12 July 2004 – 29 March 2005
2005-03-29
19 April 2004
2004-04-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-07-12
Vanessa Bell
Collection based display
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
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
8 February 2017 – 4 June 2017
2017-06-04
8 February 2017 – 4 June 2017
2017-06-04
2017-02-08
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2017-02-08
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Loan-out
24 March 2018 – 30 September 2018
2018-09-30
24 March 2018 – 30 September 2018
2018-09-30
2018-03-24
Artipelag (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018-03-24
The Bloomsbury Group
Loan-out
19 February 2024 – 11 May 2024
2024-05-11
19 February 2024 – 11 May 2024
2024-05-11
2024-02-19
Art Explora (Liverpool, UK)
2024-02-19
Mobile Museum 2024
Loan-out
6 March 2025 – 10 August 2025
2025-08-10
6 March 2025 – 10 August 2025
2025-08-10
2025-03-06
The Nivaagaard Collection (Nivå, Denmark)
2025-03-06
THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP
Loan-out
Chrysanthemums
support: 610 × 457 mm
frame: 776 × 630 × 80 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1924
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<span class="text0">Bell often painted flowerpieces and frequently used      flowers in her interior decorative work. Stylised flowers are a </span><span class="text14">dominant theme in the dust jacket designs</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">she designed for books written by her      sister,</span><span class="text0"> Virginia Woolf. </span>
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<span class="text15">Bell rejected the brighter colours she’d used</span><span class="text0"> before the war, and in the 1920s and 30s painted      flowerpieces and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still lifes</span></a> with rich but sombre colour harmonies. The      vase of flowers here is placed on a mirror.  </span>
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<span class="text14">This work was presented to the Tate by the</span><span class="text0"> Contemporary Art Society in 1924 and was </span><span class="text16">the first work by Bell to enter the Collection. </span>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N03836</b> CHRYSANTHEMUMS 1920
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<br/>Inscr. ‘V B 1920’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 24×18 (61×46).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
C.A.S., <i>Paintings and Drawings</i>, Grosvenor House, June–July 1923 (26), as ‘Chrysanthemums’; Arts Council and tour, 1964 (40).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>C.A.S. Report 1919–24</i>, 1924, pl.4; Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.49</p>
<p>Previously catalogued as ‘Flowers in a Jug’. The same jug appears in 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/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> ‘Flowers’ by Duncan Grant, repr. Roger Fry, <i>Duncan Grant</i>, 1930, pl.16.</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
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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chrysanthemum cloth furnishings miscellaneous natural phenomena objects plants and flowers reflection table vase vessels and containers