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Click here to subscribeAttributed to Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) - 'Still Life'Depicting a basket of apples, grapes and pears, oil on canvas, signed lower left 'V Stephen', approx. 30x45cm, inset Victorian foliate moulded and swept gilt gesso frame. NB: Vanessa Bell was born Vanessa Stephen in London on 30th May 1879, daughter of literary critic Sir Lesley Stephen and the older sister of writer Virginia Woolf. Vanessa married the art critic Clive Bell, and the two formed the Bloomsbury Group.
*AR Attributed to VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) BritishPicking Flowers on the South CoastOil on canvasSigned and dated 1940 x 33 cm, framed CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, could do with a clean, remnants of old stencil number to stretcher, verso stuck down with brown paper.
Duncan Grant (1885-1978) PORTRAIT OF LINDY GUINNESS, c.1965 oil on board Purchased from Christie's by Jonathan Riley, Emscote Lawn;Private collection, Dublin;Dickon Hall Fine Art, Belfast;Collection of Dr Henry McKee, 1988;Whyte's, 29 September 2008, lot 6;Private collection Francis Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography, Chatto and Windus, London, 1997, p.434 Lindy Guinness, also known as Lady Dufferin, was born in 1941, the daughter of Loel Guinness and his second wife, Lady Isabel Manners. She first met Duncan Grant when she was seventeen and was encouraged by him to paint, subsequently studying at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade, and with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. Lindy continued to visit Charleston regularly to paint with Grant until his death in 1978. She and Grant painted each other regularly and she was instrumental in encouraging the important 1964 retrospective exhibition of his work at Wildenstein, London. Lindy Guinness continues to exhibit regularly at the Ava Gallery on the grounds of her home at Clandeboye, Bangor. Duncan Grant was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group and along with his partner, Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf and his brief loves Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, defined the British arts world of the pre-war period. This mantel was taken up by a younger generation of post-war Pop artists, including David Hockney, who was given early support and encouragement from Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, and husband of Lindy Guinness. Lord Dufferin was co-owner of the Kasmin Gallery, which opened in 1963 and showed the works of Hockney and Lucian Freud, who was married briefly to Lord Dufferin’s sister, Caroline Blackwood. After their own marriage in 1964, Lord and Lady Dufferin became central figures of the London art scene in the 1960s. 24 by 20in. (61 by 50.8cm)
*Bell (Julian, 1952-). Ernst Gombrich, 1997, oil on canvas, portrait, artist monogram lower right, 39 x 33.5 cm (15.25 x 13.25 ins), carved gilt frame, Francis Kyle Gallery label to verso (exhibition number 5) plus gallery exhibition leaflet Julian Bell was born in 1952 and grew up in Newcastle and Leeds. His father was the potter and writer Quentin Bell, his grandmother was the painter Vanessa Bell and he stayed with his grandmother at Charleston farmhouse on the Sussex downs during the 1950s. (1)Amendment: The label indicates that the item must have been exhibited at the Francis Kyle Gallery in a show of Julian Bell’s work, where it was exhibited as number 5 in the catalogue.
* Vanessa Bell, nee Stephen [1879-1961]-A portrait study of Maud Milman:-, circa 1905transcribed on an old label applied to the reverse taken from the original mount, 'Maud, drawn by Vanessa Stephen'coloured chalk drawing29.5 x 25cm.* Provenance.Gifted to Dr. M.W. LittlewoodThence by family descent.*Notes The sitter, Maud Milman, was the younger sister of Sylvia Milman, a friend and fellow student of Vanessa Bell [then Vanessa Stephen] at The Slade School. The Stephen and Milman families were friends. The Milman sisters (four in all) were the grand-daughters of the Rev. Henry Milman, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Virginia Woolf, The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays, Hogarth Press, London 1950; Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey Letters, Hogarth Press, London 1956, both with dust wrappers; Walter Sickert, a conversation, Hogarth Press, 1934, printed wrapper by Vanessa Bell; The Death the Moth, Hogarth Press, 1942; and David Daiches, Virginia Woolf, Editions Poetry, London, reprinted 1945, (5).
Vanessa Bell, British School, Bloomsbury set, 1879-1961, 'Tommy's Nurse', life study of a young nurse in uniform, watercolour, estate VB stamp, label for the Bloomsbury Workshop to verso, 18.5 x 16cmThis illustration was painted for Julia Stephen's Emlycaunt, c.1920, an unpublished collection of children's stories written by the mother of Virginia Wolf, Vanessa was Virginia's sister
*Clarice Cliff. A Vanessa Bell 'Bloomsbury' pattern part dinner service produced for Clarice Cliff, Wilkinson Ltd, circa 1930s, comprising pair of tureens, covers and stands, a smaller tureen and cover plus ladle, six soup bowls and covers, sauce-boat, two oval platters, five dinner plates, six dessert plates, five side plates (some damage) Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was an English painter and interior designer plus a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf. (36)
VANESSA & QUENTIN BELL.A small hand thrown vase decorated by Vanessa Bell & made by Quentin Bell at Charleston, Sussex, circa 1939. Decorated in blue & manganese by Vanessa Bell. The base initialled VB & also the monogram for Quentin Bell. Height 11.5cm.Note: We would like to acknowledge the help of Dr. Darren Clarke, Head of Curatorial Services, The Charleston Trust, East Sussex.
‡The following three lots are sold on the instructionsof Shrewsbury College of Arts and TechnologyROBERT MEDLEY, CBE. RA. (1905-1994)Red Street Scene with Figuresoil on canvas30 1/2 x 40 1/4 in (77.4 x 102.3cm)Exhibited:Robert Medley Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings and sculpture 1928-1963. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London November-December 1963, no 6'Red Street Scene' is mentioned in the Whitechapel exhibition catalogue - "1938. Painted Red Street Scene, a more social-realist picture with expressionist-caricature elements of distortion and 'artificial' invented colour" and (he) "began to feel the need to eliminate elements of fantasy from his work. Medley feared sentimentality and started to mistrust surrealist fantasy"'Robert Medley Exhibition' 1984 no.10. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The frame bears a 'Contemporary Art Society. Art Exhibitions Bureau, London'label on the reverse.For a smaller study for the painting in this auction.cf Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Oct 2014. lot 342 Medley included in the 39th Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London. Oct-Nov 1937 , ,no.38 a painting titled 'Men, Women and Children talking and Playing'. 50 gns.He was however also working on a number of other paintings at this time. In the same year 1937, Medley exhibited six pictures including 'Tenement Buildings' and 'Jokers' at Agnews Robert Medley studied at the Byam Shaw and RA Schools, London in the early nineteen twenties, and later in Paris from 1926-1928. In the period 1929-1934 he worked with both Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. He showed with the London Group from 1929 becoming a Member in 1937. As art Director of the Group Theatre 1935-1939 he designed the settings and costumes for a number of Productions. In 1938 he won the commission to paint the safety curtain for the Old Vic , and from about the same time he was working on another street scene known as the 'Butcher's Shop'.
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) - A lead glazed pottery vase painted in shades of blue and maganese with an abstract design separated by twin blue vertical lines and dots, 5.5ins diameter x 5.5ins high (initialled to underside "VB" in blue and further blue mark and indecipherable incised lettering) Provenance : This vase was given to the vendor by Duncan Grant on a visit to Charleston in the early 1970s and would often talk with Duncan Grant
§ Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961) Nude with raised arm watercolour, circa 1920 18 x 17cm (7 x 7in) Provenance: Purchased in 1991 from The Bloomsbury Workshop, 12 Galen Place, London, WC1 Dirt under the glass. Possible browing and discolouration around the ink lines. Some small areas of surface dirt.
*Kathleen Hale (1898-2000)PLAYFUL TIGERCollage, mixed media including gouache, tin gauze, gold foil, silver foil etc., inscribed on paper label verso22 x 28cmProvenance: Christopher Brunner CBE and his wife Dr Augusta Bonnard of Mecklenberg Square, London (friends and neighbours of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Augusta was a student of Sigmund Freud in Vienna and they became lifelong friends of the Freuds);Georgia Clark (Augusta [Guita] Bonnard’s executor), 1974;Lesley Webb;Elizabeth Wright.Kathleen Hale is best remembered for her 'Orlando' books about Marmalade the Cat. In 1917, at the age of nineteen, she moved from Lancashire to make her life as an artist, finding employment as Augustus John’s secretary, through whom she met the artistic circle in Fitzrovia which included Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. She met Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines in Paris in 1922 and went to study with them in 1945, living first at The Pound, Higham, Suffolk, then Benton End, Hadleigh. W
Woolf (Virginia). Monday or Tuesday, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1921, four full-page woodcut illustrations by Vanessa Bell (with usual offsetting to opposing text), single-leaf advertisement leaf at rear, original cloth-backed boards, upper cover designed by Vanessa Bell, few minor marks, corners rubbed, 8vo Woolmer 17. 1000 copies printed. (1)
A Vanessa Bell textile design, Leaves and Grapes, cotton chintz for Allan Walton Textiles, 22 x 40 cm Condition report Report by GH No provenance, except label to verso which reads, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Leaves and Grapes c 1932, cotton chintz for Allan Walton Textiles 22 x 40 cm, and No 51 in British Design & Illustration, Nov. 2004.
FORSTER, E.M. Anonymity, The Hogarth Press. 1925. 8vo. Vanessa Bell bds. Tog.with COLLIER, John, Green Thoughts, Frontis. by Edward Wolfe. Foreword by Osbert Sitwell. No. 12 of Furnival Books, 1931. Ltd. edn. 296 sgd. by author. glt. cl. Plus ELIOT, T.S. East Coker, Faber, 1940, Little Gidding, Faber, 1942, plus others. 11
§ Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978) The White Coffee Pot signed lower right "D Grant", inscribed with title on the reverse, and with a sketch of a girl on the reverse oil on board, in a green and gold painted frame 81 x 60cm (32 x 23in) Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, 12 Galen Place, London, WC1. Born in 1885, Duncan Grant spent his early life in India, returning to Britain in 1893. Grant was encouraged by the French painter Simon Bussy, who later introduced Grant to Matisse in 1909. Grant, along with Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell (whom Grant had a daughter with, Angelica Garnett), was a central figure of the organisation of artists and writers called Bloomsbury. Perhaps a little dirty but fine.
§ Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961) The Kitchen Table, Charleston, 1948 signed lower right with initials "VB" oil on canvas 70 x 51cm (27 x 20in) Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, 12 Galen Place, London, WC1. Vanessa Bell, born in 1879, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and sister of Virginia Woolf. Studying at the Slade School of Art in 1901, she was said by her family to have been excellent at portraiture but she chose to specialise in still lifes, landscapes and interiors with figures. Vanessa Bell was inspired by Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions to use more colour and bold arrangements, later in 1914 turning to abstraction. Sadly in 1941, after the death of Virginia, Bell withdrew to isolation, only keeping in contact with close family and artist Duncan Grant. However she continued to paint until she died in 1961. A little craquelure above the mussel pot, otherwise appears fine.
§ Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961) Iris and White Columbine and an embroidered screen, 1953 signed lower left with initials "VB" oil on canvas 60 x 50cm (23 x 20in) Provenance: Angelica Garnett; Sandra Lummis Fine Art, 17 Haslemere Road, London, N8; Private collection, London. Old stretcher (?) mark runing vertically across the middle. Perhaps a little dirty but fine. Quite coarse canvas.
Quentin Bell, a Fulham Pottery figural lamp base and painted shade, the central column with two Spanish women standing back to back on either side, the cylindrical base divided into panels, each with central Bull mask, the hand painted shade initialled internally, 66cm high including shade Provenance: From the collection of Elisabeth Luard, Brynmeheryn. Quentin Bell was the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf. He moved to Charleston in Lewes, East Sussex, when he was six years old. There he grew up within the heart of the Bloomsbury Group. Quentin Bell initially trained in fine art but moved to Stoke on Trent at the age of 25 to study pottery. He continued to work with clay for the rest of his life alongside his writing and painting. He created the pottery at Charleston during the Second World War. His work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Quentin Bell, a Fulham Pottery plate, centrally incised with a woman reading or singing from a book to a banded blue border, incised to verso "Fulham Pottery, Quentin Bell" 23½cm (9in) Provenance: From the collection of Elisabeth Luard, Brynmeheryn. Quentin Bell was the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf. He moved to Charleston in Lewes, East Sussex, when he was six years old. There he grew up within the heart of the Bloomsbury Group. Quentin Bell initially trained in fine art but moved to Stoke on Trent at the age of 25 to study pottery. He continued to work with clay for the rest of his life alongside his writing and painting. He created the pottery at Charleston during the Second World War. His work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Quentin Bell, a pottery dish: the centre painted with a line of trees in a landscape, the rim with a ring of dot motifs on a blue ground, incised mark, probably Fulham Pottery, 19 cm diameter. * Quentin Bell [1910-1996], the second son of Clive and Vanessa Bell was the driving force behind the creation and survival of the Charleston Trust.
After Dame Laura Knight (British, 1877-1970) Lamorna Cove, Cornwall bears signature to the reverse oil on canvas, unframed 61 x 91cm (24 x 35in) Provenance: Acquired by the vendor from a British expatriate family in the United States some years ago. Laura Knight painted several views of Lamorna around 1915 - for example Sotheby's, London, lot 20, 21 July 2005. The "Vanessa Bell" inscription to the reverse is spurious. Although there is a "VB" monogram on the painting and Vanessa Bell and Laura Knight were contemporaries, the present painting may have been copied by an artist around the time with access to the original. Quite dirty and unframed - unlikely Vanessa Bell" signature to the reverse.
Virginia Woolf's family.- - Stephen 17 Autograph Letters signed to her daughter, Stella Duckworth Stephen (Julia Prinsep, mother of Virgina Woolf, philanthropist, married first Henry Duckworth, second Leslie Stephen, 1846-95) 17 Autograph Letters signed to her daughter, Stella Duckworth, half-sister of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, addressed to "Beloved Female" and signed "yr lovg old ma", 82pp. & 3 envelopes, 8vo, [London], 22 Hyde Park Gate, n.d., [ before 1895], chatty letters on a variety of subjects, mentioning Virginia Woolf, "I got yr card fr Cologne & Ginia news v[ia] Mainz both this M[orning]. There has been a perfect deluge of rain w has stopped now the house is all in confusion", refering to her future husband, "I haven't heard fr Jack Hills I suppose he will be here tonight or tomorrow"; and 6 other ALs.s., including: 1 from Gerald Duckworth, 2 from her grandmother, ?Maria Jackson, folds (c. 29 pieces). Stella Duckworth (1869-97), married John Waller Hills [1867-1938, politician and angler ] in 1895. "Shortly after the marriage Stella was taken ill with peritonitis, and she died in July 1897." - Oxford DNB.
PRE RAPHAELITE SCHOOL: Head and shoulders portrait of Julia Prinsep Stephen (nee Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) (1846-1895), inscribed with monogram ? 'J.S. to J.S.' and dated '1893', pastels, 31 x 20cm oval Julia Princep Stephen, mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. She was a renowned beauty and favourite of the pre-Raphaelites.
WOOLF, Virginia. Kew Gardens… second edition. Richmond: [printed by Richard Madley for] Hogarth Press, 1919. 8vo (218 x 140mm). 2 woodcut illustrations by Vanessa Bell (one full-page, the other a tail-piece). (Spotted.) Original coloured decorated wrappers in royal blue, chocolate-brown and brick red by Roger Fry`s Omega Workshop, original white label printed in black on upper wrapper (the wrappers torn with loss). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
JULIAN BELL: WORK FOR THE WINTER, MORE OR LESS FOR CHRISTMAS, [1935], Julian son of Vanessa, was killed in the Spanish Civil War in 1937, orig ptd wraps + HERBERT READ (ed): THE KNAPSACK, 1939, 1st edn, orig wrap around Leather binding, gt + RICHARD PENNA: ONE MAN, 1999, sigd and inscr with ALS + 2 publication advertisement leaflets loosely inserted, orig cardboard wraps + MICHAEL, ?Printed by his Mother?, [nd], inscription dated June 1935, an assorted collection of memories and quotes by various authors, orig cl bkd bds, (4)
Duncan James Corrow Grant L.G (1885-1978) 'A Still Life of Tulips in a Cream Vase with Apples and a Plate nearby', signed with the artists initials, oil on canvas, laid down, 51.5cm x 37.5 cm Born in Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, he lived in India until the age of eight. He was educated at Westminster School of Art, and also studied in Italy and Paris under J.E.Blanche, he then returned to London and further study took place at the Slade School. He was a member of the Camden Town Group as well as the Bloomsbury circle with Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell, who all had an association with the Omega workshops, often working in the South of France, spending the Summers in Cassis. He lived in Firle, Sussex and decorated the Church at nearby Berwick in 1943, with the assistance of both Vanessa and Quentin Bell. May be subject to artist resale rights.
AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS: Two autograph albums containing over 80 signatures by various actors, actresses, entertainers, pop singers and a few other famous individuals including Rowan Atkinson, Gerry Marsden, Ruby Murray, Helen Shapiro, Linda Nolan, Geoff Capes, Shakin' Stevens, Howard Keel, Meat Loaf, Erasure (Andy Bell & Vince Clarke), Mark Knopfler, Elizabeth Bradley, Jenny Seagrove, James Fleet, Jason Priestley, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston, Corin Redgrave, Brian Cox, Patsy Byrne, Art Malik, Stefanie Powers, Michael Brandon, Ian Woosnam, Carl Fogarty etc. Some pages have attached magazine photographs and others are good examples to individual pages. G to VG, 2