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Lady Ottoline Morrell
Presented by Clive Bell and Duncan Grant 1951
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painting oil paint canvas
1 November 2009 – 15 February 2010
2010-02-15
1 November 2009 – 15 February 2010
2010-02-15
2009-11-01
La Piscine, Musée d’art et d’industrie (Roubaix, France)
2009-11-01
Conversation Anglaise; Le groupe de Bloomsbury
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
13 September 2023 – 7 January 2024
2024-01-07
13 September 2023 – 7 January 2024
2024-01-07
2023-09-13
Charleston (Lewes, UK)
2023-09-13
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion
Loan-out
Lady Ottoline Morrell
support: 308 × 290 mm
frame: 440 × 421 × 80 mm
Presented by Clive Bell and Duncan Grant 1951
<p><b>Simon Bussy</b><span> 1870-1954 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bussy-lady-ottoline-morrell-n06015" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06015</span></a> </span><b>Lady Ottoline Morrell</b><span>
</span><i>c</i><span>.1920 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Simon | Bussy' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 12 ¼ x 11 ½ (31 x 29)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Clive Bell and Duncan Grant 1951</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Clive Bell and Duncan Grant, Charleston (purchased from the artist 1947)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Robert Gathorne-Hardy (ed.), </span><i>Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell</i><span> (London 1963), p.238</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Quentin Bell, </span><i>Bloomsbury</i><span>
(London 1968), p.36 </span>
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<p><span>Lady Ottoline Morrell, née Cavendish (1873-1938), half-sister of the sixth Duke of Portland. After her marriage to Philip Morrell, a Liberal Member of Parliament, in 1902, she created 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/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>salon</span></a> at her house in Bedford Square which was frequented by many famous writers and artists including Bertrand Russell, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Henry Lamb, Augustus John and the members of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/b/bloomsbury" title="Glossary definition for 'Bloomsbury '"><span>Bloomsbury</span></a> circle. Later, at the manor house at Garsington in Oxfordshire, her numerous guests also included Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence and Mark Gertler. </span>
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<p><span>Lady Ottoline recorded in her memoirs, without any clear indication of the year, that 'Simon Bussy, the French painter, a brother-in-law of Lytton Strachey, came to do 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/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a> sketch of me. Unfortunately, he found it impossible to accomplish and had to give it up.' Simon Bussy stated in a letter of June 1952 that 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> of her was probably painted about 1920. It seems to have been done from memory as an almost <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/caricature" title="Glossary definition for 'Caricature'"><span>caricature</span></a>-like record of her somewhat eccentric appearance. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.90-1, reproduced p.90</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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