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Interior with a Table
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
architecture
chair
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
coast
countries and continents
curtain
domestic
features
flower
France
furnishings
house
interiors
landscape
living room
mountain
objects
places
plants and flowers
residential
Saint-Tropez, La Maison Blanche
sea
seascapes and coasts
table
vase
vessels and containers
window
wooded
<p>Bell and Duncan Grant had established their home in rural Sussex in 1916, but they continued to seek inspiration in the France, making frequent visits to Paris and the South.</p><p>This picture was painted at La Maison Blanche, a villa just outside St Tropez which they rented from Bell’s friend Rose Vildrac. They stayed there for five months from October 1921, with Bell’s children Quentin, Julian and Angelica. Bell wrote ‘It’s delicious to be in the South – one forgets how nice it is – all the colours and the light and space and everything looking so baked through’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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
31 March 2011 – 31 October 2011
2011-10-31
31 March 2011 – 31 October 2011
2011-10-31
2011-03-31
Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK)
2011-03-31
Vanessa Bell 50th Anniversary
Loan-out
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
10 February 2018 – 11 December 2018
2018-12-11
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2018-02-10
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
26 May 2018 – 16 September 2018
2018-09-16
2018-05-26
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2 October 2018 – 11 December 2018
2018-12-11
2018-10-02
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2018-02-10
Virginia Woolf
Exhibition
26 May 2018 – 9 December 2018
2018-12-09
26 May 2018 – 16 September 2018
2018-09-16
2018-05-26
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2 October 2018 – 9 December 2018
2018-12-09
2018-10-02
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2018-05-26
Virginia Woolf
Loan-out
19 October 2024 – 7 September 2025
2025-09-07
1 October 2024 – 31 January 2025
2025-01-31
2024-10-01
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK)
2024-10-19
Vanessa Bell
Loan-out
14 June 2025 – 14 September 2025
2025-09-14
14 June 2025 – 14 September 2025
2025-09-14
2025-06-14
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, USA)
http://www.clarkart.edu/
2025-06-14
Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880-1945: Creating a Room of One’s Own
Loan-out
Interior with a Table
support: 540 × 641 mm
frame: 703 × 819 × 72 mm
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
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<span class="text0">Bell and Duncan Grant had established their home in      rural Sussex in 1916, but they continued to seek inspiration in the France,      making frequent visits to Paris and the South. </span>
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<span class="text0">This picture was painted at La Maison Blanche, a villa      just outside St Tropez which they rented from Bell’s friend Rose      Vildrac. They stayed there for five months from October 1921, with      Bell’s children Quentin, Julian and Angelica. Bell wrote      ‘It’s delicious to be in the South – one forgets how nice      it is – all the colours and the light and space and everything      looking so baked through’. </span>
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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05078</b> INTERIOR WITH A TABLE 1921
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<br/>Inscr. ‘VB 1921’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 21 1/4×25 1/4 (54×64).
<br/>Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Frank Hindley Smith.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
(?) London Group, April–May 1923 (68), as ‘Interior’</p>
<p>Painted at Saint-Tropez in a house belonging to Mme Vildrac which the artist took for two or three months in the winter of 1921–2 (letter from the artist, 22 February 1956). Duncan Grant's ‘South of France’ of 1922 (No.4443 below) was painted at Saint-Tropez at the same time.</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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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architecture chair cities, towns, villages (non-UK) coast countries and continents curtain domestic features flower France furnishings house interiors landscape living room mountain objects places plants and flowers residential Saint-Tropez, La Maison Blanche sea seascapes and coasts table vase vessels and containers window wooded