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****Vanessa Bell: Oil on board of a Still Life and Portrait sketch of Duncan Grant, initialled V.B.

* Duncan James Corrowr Grant [ 1885-1978]- `Mealtime`, Arabs by a roadside, Morocco:- monogrammed and inscribed DG Morocco `68 on reverse of canvas 65 x 91cm. *Provenance Phillips Son & Neale Lot 246, 7th March 1986, sold for £1500. We are grateful to Richard Stone for authenticating this picture. This colourful work was painted in 1968 at Charleston from studies made in Morocco where the artist visited in 1966 and 1968. Other examples are `Figures Marrakesh` signed and dated `69, 66 x 81cm, sold Christies 1997 and `Garden at Farah, Tangier` , signed and dated `66, oil on board, 56 x 40cm, sold Sothebys 1994. *Biography. Duncan grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. Educated in India and St Paul`s London, studied art at Westminster School of Art and Paris under Jacques Emile Blanche. He became the Director of Roger Fry`s Omega Workshops and for the rest of his life involved himself with decorative commissions. Around 1916 he became involved with Charleston and the Bloomsbury Group and a lifelong companion of Vanessa Bell. Grant often worked in the South of France spending summers at Cassis between 1927-1938. His early close relationships were with Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes. In 1935, along with other prominent British artists, he was selected to provide paintings and fabrics for the RMS Queen Mary, a not altogether happy commission! In Grant`s later years the poet Paul Roche, whom he had known since 1946 and who frequently modelled for Grant, took care of him and helped him maintain his way of life at Charleston. Duncan Grant`s remains are buried beside Vanessa Bell`s in the churchyard of St. Peter`s Church, West Firle, East Sussex, close to Charleston.

*Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), 'FLOWERS IN A GLASS' Signed and dated 1935 l.r., oil on canvas 32 x 23cm Exhibited: The Bloomsbury Workshop, 'The Charleston Artists', 1989. *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot. CONDITION REPORT: Relined. No obvious major fault. Nothing visible under UV.

Angus MCBEAN - Studio Visitors Book with over 1100 signatures from 1949 to 1968, almost all associated with the entertainment industry, some having added comments. Singers including The Beatles - Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr; Cliff Richard (twice); Tommy Steele; Adam Faith; Maria Callas; Joan Sutherland; Kathleen Ferrier; and ballerina Margot Fonteyne. Comedians including Spike Milligan; Frankie Howerd; Bruce Forsyth; and Ken Dodd with some typical Knotty Ash comments. Playwrights including Agatha Christie; John Osborne; T S Eliot; Tennessee Williams; and Ivor Novello. A full page flourishing Cecil Beaton signature. Actors and Film Stars including Marlene Dietrich; Katherine Hepburn; Richard Burton; Alec Guinness; Laurence Olivier; Mary Martin; and Larry Hagman. The book is approx 33 x 25cm, bound in full green morocco with gilt edges by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the front hinge (internal) is damaged, otherwise very good. The Beatles signatures appear very early in 1963 and this is almost certainly their first major photo shoot for the cover of their debut LP Please Please Me which was done by Angus McBean. The purchaser of the Visitors Book will also get two 'Rotation Books' which were negative indexes with dates on which sitters were photographed; however not all names in the rotation books are in the album as some were photographed at different venues and some did not sign. The rotation books have been of some use identifying signatures and some of the other interesting signatures are listed as follows; Peggy ASHCROFT, John ASHTON, Ruby M AYRES, Hermione BADDELY, Michael BATES, James BAXTER, BEVERLEY SISTERS, Claire BLOOM, Denys BLAKELOCK, Elizabeth BOWEN, Bernard BRADEN (and Barbara KELLY), James BRIDIE, Tony BRITTON, Brenda BRUCE, Dora BRYAN, Ursula BLOOM, Pearl CARR, Phyllis CALVERT, Eddie CALVERT, Russ CONWAY, Billy COTTON, George CHISHOLM, Alma COGAN, Peggy CUMMINS, Cicely COURTNEIDGE, Anne CRAWFORD, Denis COMPTON, Jeanne de CASALIS, Linda CHRISTIAN, Florence DESMOND, Norman DEL MAR, Maurice DENHAM, Edith EVANS, Fred EMNEY, Jimmy EDWARDS, Polly ELWES, Tudor EVANS, Lovat FRASER, Peter FINCH, Bryan FORBES, Fenella FIELDING, Douglas FAIRBANKS, Patricia FOY, Ann FORD, Andrew FAULDS, FREDDIE & THE DREAMERS, Hermione GINGOLD, Peter GELHORN, Ram GOPAL, Joyce GRENFELL, Max GELDRAY, Marius GORING, Robert HELPMANN, Edmund HOCKRIDGE, Gilbert HARDING, Gerard HOPKINS, Michael HORDEN, Robert HARDY, Irene HANDL, Jack HULBERT, Jane HYLTON, Laurence HARVEY, Stanly HOLLOWAY, Anthony IRELAND, Glynis JOHNS, Rosamund JOHN, Isabel JEANS, Helen JACOBSEN, Max JAFFA, Eileen JOYCE, Collie KNOX, Kay KENDAL, Maurice KAUFMAN, Ted KAVANAGH, Billy J KRAMER, Lupino LANE, Hugh LATIMER, Vanessa LEE, John LE MESURIER, John LEHMANN, Eric LANDER, Roger LIVESY, Vera LYNN, Geoff LOVE, Margaret LEIGHTON, Oliver MESSEL, John Mills (and Mary Hayley BELL), Sandy MACPHERSON, W MCQUEEN POPE, Kenneth MACKINTOSH, Compton MACKENZIE, Robert MORLEY, Ruby MURRAY, Millicent MARTIN, Walter MIDGLEY, Charles MORGAN, Jessie MATTHEWS, Geraldine MCEWAN, Hank MARVIN, Hayley MILLS, Beverley NICHOLLS, Robert NESBITT, Dennis PRICE, Wilfred PICKLES & Mabel PICKLES, Donald PEERS, Eric PORTMAN, Anna POLLOCK, Tyrone POWER, Dorita Y PEPE, Joan PLOWRIGHT, Val PARNELL, Derek QUINN, Beryl REID, Terence RATTIGAN, Vanessa REDGRAVE, Michael REDGRAVE, Corin REDGRAVE, Edmundo ROS, Denise ROBINS, Paul ROBESON, Penelope REED, Nancy SPAIN, Robert SEWELL, Ronald SHINER, Victor SILVESTER, Jean SIMMONS, Rosemary SQUIRES, John SLATER, Helen SHAPIRO, Dorothy TUTIN, Sybil THORNDIKE, David TOMLINSON, Ann TODD, Malcolm VAUGHAN, Marty WILDE, Emlyn WILLIAMS, Irene WORTH, Elizabeth WELCH, Diana WYNARD, Chester WILMOT, Mat ZETTERLING and Doris ZINKEISEN (1)

Vanessa Bell, British 1879-1961- "Amaryllis with Cat"; oil on paper laid down on board, c.1958, stamped VB in a circle on the reverse of the board, inscribed label to the reverse, 63.5x40cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, London: Property of Mrs Garnett, according to the labels attached to the reverse

Pair of limited edition prints after Vanessa Bell `Still Life at a Window` and `Arum Lilies`

One volume Virginia Woolf, 'Three Guineas' new edition 1943, with jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, together with one volume 'Hogarth Essays Second Series'

Seat cover, c.1920, designed by Vanessa Bell and embroidered by Ethel Grant, the canvas worked with wool in cross stitch and with a border in raised over-cast stitch, the double handled urn motif relating to Vanessa Bell`s book jacket designs for the novels of her sister Virginia Woolf, framed and glazed, width 68 cm.

Vanessa Bell, British 1879-1961- "Olive Grove, Provence", 1920; watercolour, signed in pencil, in a carved Louis XIV style frame, 62x47.5cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: This work was probably painted while Bell was summering at her home in Cassis, France

Duncan Grant (Scottish, 1885-1978) Ornamental urns in Charleston garden oil on canvas, signed and dated `D Grant \ 72` lower left, `No 2` in red chalk verso 20½ x 17½in. (52 x 44.5cm.) * Charleston was the East Sussex home of Duncan Grant and his wife Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf), both pivotal figures within the Bloomsbury Group. Grant was also a founding member of the Camden Town Group in 1911, exhibited with the Grafton Group in 1913 and became a member of the London Group in 1919. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1926 and 1932, and his work was included in the Coronation Exhibition of Contemporary British Artists at Agnew and Sons, London, in 1937. The Tate Gallery held a retrospective of his work in 1959 and an exhibition at the Tate Gallery was held in 1975 in honour of his 90th birthday, together with an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The urns in this painting can be seen in a photograph on the cover of `The Garden at Charleston: A Bloomsbury Garden through the Seasons` by Sue Snell, pub. 2010 by Frances Lincoln.

PROF. QUENTIN BELL (British, 1910-1996) Sculpture, mixed media, a room interior with a nude female body levitating above her dressed form lying on a chaise longue, before a window, the room hung with portraits; seen through a perspex window in a plaster and scrim formed cube on three tapered legs, with illumination, 63cms wide x 56cms deep x 68cms high (some damage). See illustration Son of Clive and Vanessa Bell and nephew to Leonard and Virginia Woolfe, Quentin Bell`s early years were very much influenced by the `Bloomsbury Group`. He studied painting in Paris, including abstraction and surrealism. He returned to Britain and in the late 1930s joined the Euston Road School. Bell was ultimately a painter, sculptor, potter, art historian and writer.

A Watercolour Portrait of Vanessa Bell. Indistinctly signed.

Woolf (Virginia) The Waves first edition, original purple cloth, fading to spine-ends, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, browned, upper joint split, chips to spine-ends and upper corner of upper panel, [Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279], Hogarth Press, 1931; Flush, A Biography, plates, half-title, ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine browned, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, light spotting, spine ends bumped, [Kirkpatrick A19a; Woolmer 334], Hogarth Press, 1933, 8vo (2)(2)

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. - Virginia WOOLF. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. First edition, 8vo (181 x 118mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket with a design by Vanessa Bell (minor tears). - And thirty-four others, the majority modern first editions (35).

Pair of portraits in coloured chalks generally accepted as being of Edwardian ladies of sisters Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolfe c1910 (signed indistinctly by different artists) Rowley Gallery label verso to one

Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, light scattered spotting, particularly to endpapers, ownership inscription to endpaper, a little bumped, slightly cocked, dust-jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell, corners and edges a little creased and frayed, [Kirkpatrick A22], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1937. *** Provenance: Formerly the property of Leonard and Virginia Woolf; from the estate of Louis Mayer, Cook-General at their residence Monk`s House, Rodmell, for 34 years.

Vanessa Bell, Coloured Lithograph "Child with Flowers", labelled The Redfern Gallery Ltd, number 21, in gilt and pale blue frame, 31cm x 24cm

Woolf (Virginia) Between the Acts 1941; The Moment and Other Essays 1947; Flush A Biography illustrations 1933; The Years 1937; The Death of the Moth 1942 first editions original cloth the first two with dust-jackets by Vanessa Bell worn at ends the first with two tears to base repaired the second worn at fore-edge and darkened the rest with faded spines 8vo & 4to (5)(5)

Quentin Bell (1910-1996) Still life with apples, scythe, red cloth, bowl and vase signed, inscribed with title `Still Life` and£30.00 on a label attached to the reverse oil on canvas 79 x 59cm. Provenance: 1946 Yvonne Kapp, inherited by Betty Lewis, thence by family descent. Quentin Bell (1910-1996): Painter, writer, teacher, potter and sculptor. Son of the art critic Clive Bell and the artist Vanessa Bell. Studied at Leighton School and during World War II was a member of the Political Warfare Executive. Held teaching positions at The Slade, Oxford University, Hull University, Sussex University. With Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, he painted extensive murals in Berwick Church, Sussex, close to where he lived at Firle. Yvonne Kapp was born in London to a German-Jewish family in 1903. Against her parents wishes, she married the artist Edmond Kapp and lived with him on the fringes of the intellectual-bohemian world. Their marriage ended in 1930 and she returned to London where she became acutely aware of and motivated by political developments in Europe. She campaigned against fascism and worked to support refugees, latterly becoming active in conditions for workers and women`s rights. In the mid 1930s Quentin Bell wrote of Kapp "When I fell in love with Yvonne it must have seemed, to adapt a phrase of Jane Austen`s, that I did so to "disoblige my family". In fact I had no ulterior motive, I just found her voice, her appearance and her mind immensely attractive".

Woolf, Virginia. The Captain`s Death Bed and Other Essays, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1950. Burgundy-brown cloth, dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell, octavo.

Bell (Vanessa) Selected Letters... edited by Regina Marler New York 1993 § Trefusis (Violet) Violet to Vita: The Letters... to Vita Sackville-West 1910-21 edited by M.A.Leaska and John Phillips 1989 § Spalding (Frances) Vanessa Bell 1983 § Fielding (Xan editor) Best of Friends: The Brenan-Partridge Letters 1986 § Edel (Leon) Bloomsbury: A House of Lions 1979 original boards or cloth-backed boards dustjackets; and c.30 others on the Bloomsbury set 8vo & 4to (c.35)(c.35)

PINEWOOD STUDIOS: The Visitors Book from Pinewood Studios, the oblong 4to leather bound book, with marbled endpapers and gilt Pinewood Studios logo to cover, containing over 300 signatures of visitors to the film studios from September 1969 to February 1984, including (listed in chronological order) Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, Ava Gardner, Jack Hawkins, Roger Moore, Flora Robson, Beryl Reid, Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Allan Cuthbertson, Topol, Anton Diffring, Elke Sommer, Susannah York, Peter Finch, Hughie Green, Constance Cummings, George C. Scott, Cornel Wilde, Michael Bentine, Eamonn Andrews, James Booth, Charlton Heston, Spike Milligan, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Ringo Starr, Gladys Cooper, Tony Curtis, Margaret Rawlings, George Lazenby, Simead Cusack, Dora Bryan, Leo Genn, Kenneth More, Donald Pleasance, Kathleen Byron, Googie Withers, Terry-Thomas, Sean Connery, Linda Christian, Una Stubbs, Jill St. John, Richard Harris, Christina Sinatra, Robert Wagner, Bette Davis, Bernard Cribbins, Alfred Hitchcock, Sarah Miles, Robert Bolt, Shirley MacLaine, Lynne Frederick, Susan Hampshire, Claudia Cardinale, John Mills, Mary Hayley Bell, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Tom Jones, Kirk Douglas, Rex Harrison, Arthur Lowe, Dana Andrews, Geraldine Chaplin, Warren Mitchell, David Lodge, June Whitfield, Bill Fraser, Rolf Harris (with small self caricature), Arsenal FC 1972 (19 signatures including Bob Wilson, Pat Rice, Sammy Nelson, Charlie George, Ray Kennedy, Alan Ball, George Graham, Frank McLintock, Bertie Mee, Ted Drake etc.), Hylda Baker, Reg Varney, Jack Wild, Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Jane Seymour, Sid James, Lilli Palmer, Robert Beatty, Marius Goring, Robert Redford, Omar Sharif, Candice Bergen, Maureen O`Sullivan, Mia Farrow, Julie Andrews, John Gielgud, Lana Turner, Sophia Loren, Tommy Steele, Samantha Eggar, Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Sylvia Anderson, Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe, Richard Harris, Edward Kennedy, Edward Kennedy Jr., Cubby Broccoli, David Hedison, Burgess Meredith, Andrew Ray, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, Carroll Baker, Otto Preminger, Roy Kinnear, Anthony Andrews, Mel Ferrer, Jack Palance, Norman Tebbit, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Hopkins, Lewis Collins, Diana Dors, Lysette Anthony, Pamela Stephenson, George Harrison, Willie Carson, Maud Adams, Helen Slater, Maurice Denham, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Peter O`Toole, Alan Parker, Peter Cook, Ernest Borgnine, Judy Geeson, Peter Yates, Olivia Hussey, Honor Blackman, Shirley Anne Field, Adam Faith, Patsy Rowlands and many others. Each of the signatories have added the date of the their visit, most also adding either their address and/or a personal comment to Wally Clarke, Chief Security Officer and later Commissioner at Pinewood Studios. A superb souvenir of Pinewood Studios during the 1970s and early 1980s. VG

Woolf (Virginia). A Room of One’s Own, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1929,. orig. cinnamon cloth lettered in gilt, pale pink dust jacket with design by Vanessa Bell printed in navy blue, light discol. to spine, very sl. chipped to extreme head and foot, with minimal loss, 8vo. Woolmer 215B. 3040 copies printed. (1)

Woolf (Virginia). Three Guineas, 1st ed., 1938, photographic plates, endpapers partially browned, original cloth, some toning, d.j. designed by Vanessa Bell, spine darkened and rubbed, repairs and strengthening to verso, 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “To Genevieve, 13.3.38, Virginia Woolf”.. (1)

Woolf (Virginia). Between the Acts, 1st ed., pub. Hogarth Press, 1941, endpapers partially browned, original cloth, a little faded at spine ends, d.j. designed by Vanessa Bell, loss at foot of spine and upper panel margin, some chips and tears, 8vo. (1)

Woolf (Virginia). Three Guineas, 1st ed., pub. Hogarth Press, 1938, photographic plates, endpapers partially browned, original cloth, d.j. designed by Vanessa Bell, spine a little faded, one or two minor chips and tears, 8vo. (1)

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) French landscape, Chateau de Fontcreuse oil on board 14¾ x 17¾ in. (37.5 x 45.1 cm.) Painted in 1932. View on Christie's.com

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Newhaven Harbour signed 'VBell' (lower left) oil on canvas 13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.7 cm.) Painted circa 1933-34. View on Christie's.com

Angelica Garnett (née Bell) b.1918- "On the Kitchen Table"; watercolour, signed with monogram, 31x28.5cm Note: The artist, daughter of the painter Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant uses a monogram `AV` which is the initial for her mother`s first name. (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

ATTRIBUTED TO VANESSA BELL (British 1879 - 1961) Portrait of Virginia Woolf (The artists sister) mixed media on board 60cm x 45cm Note: James Bourlet & Sons label verso with artist name and title.

Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader first edition some spotting original cloth-backed decorative boards (designed by Vanessa Bell) slightly spotted and browned 8vo Hogarth Press 1925.

Woolf (Virginia) Recent Paintings by Vanessa Bell February 4th. to March 8th. 1930 at the Cooling Galleries 8pp. stapled 190 x 130mm. The London Artists` Association 1930.

Manner of Vanessa Bell, Nude Study, bears signature and date, pen and ink, 29.7cm by 15.3cm

Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961) Still Life of Flowers and Thistles, 1937 signed lower right “Vanessa Bell” oil on canvas 72 x 54cm (28.08 x 21.06in) Provenance: Thos Agnew and Sons Ltd, Old Bond Street, London, W1, No.9465 The Reader’s Digest Collection, New York Exhibited: Bloomsbury Artists from Charleston - Paintings from the Reader’s Digest Collection, The Katonah Gallery, 28 Bedford Road, Katonah, New York 10536, USA, 23 August-25 October 1987 Johannesburg Art Gallery, P O Box 23561 Joubert Park, 2044 Johannesburg, 26 November 1992-28 February 1993 - on loan from the Reader’s Digest Collection Anthony d’Offay, 9-23 Dering Street, London, W1

Woolf Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 1924 first edition 24pp pamphlet original printed wrappers tanned upper edge of front panel chipped tears to spine cover illustration by Vanessa Bell [Kirkpatrick A7a] 8vo Hogarth Press 1924.

VANESSA BELL (British 1879 - 1961) Tile Design For King`s College Garden Hostel Cambridge" Watercolour 1951 extensive details on label verso 77cm x 61cm Note : Sister of Virginia Woolf. Wife of Clive Bell and lover of Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. A central figure in "The Bloomsbury Set" a prolific and influencial interior designer and considered one of the major contributors to British portrait drawing and landscape art in the 20th century"

Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961), Village Scene on a River, France, signed lower right with initials "VB", watercolour, 19 x 28cm (7.41 x 10.92in)

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Errant knight on horseback, Pencil drawing, 11 x 13.5 cm ( 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 in) Label of The Bloomsbury Workshop gallery on backboard, Provenance: the collection of Quentin Bell

Woolf (Virginia). The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1888-1941, edited Nigel Nicolson, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1915-1941, 5 vols., pub. Hogarth Press, 2nd imp./reprinted, 1983, together 11 vols., b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, together with Granite and Rainbow. Essays by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1958, 2 copies, orig. cloth in d.j. (designed by Vanessa Bell), 8vo, with other 20th c. literature, including Hogarth Press, Norman Douglas, Beatrice Webb, H.G. Wells, et al (3 shelves)

Duncan Grant (1885-1978) oil on canvas, Roquebrune, signed and dated `60, inscribed verso `For Grace in memory of Roquebrune 1960`, 21 x 18in. "This is a momento of my mother`s last visit with Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell to the South of France. Mr Grant painted this and then gave it to my mother".

Vanessa Bell (1879 -1961) oil on canvas, Portrait of `Peter John`, 1939 inscribed `Vanessa Bell To Grace 1939` 19 x 15in. "Portrait of me was painted in 1939 in the Top Studio. One of the first to be painted up there after it was opened".

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) oil on canvas, Study for `Grace in the kitchen` monogrammed, 18 x 15in. "The painting of my mother at the kitchen table is a forerunner of the large painting upstairs at Charleston".

Sackville-West (V.). Country Notes, with Photographs by Bryan and Norman Westwood, 1st ed., 1939, b & w illusts., orig. canvas, 4to, together with Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey. Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf & James Strachey, Hogarth Press, 1956, b & w frontis., orig. cloth in sl. soiled d.j. (designed by Vanessa Bell), 8vo, plus Spender (Stephen and Hockney, David), China Diary, 1st ed., pub. Thames & Hudson, 1982, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, with other literature and poetry, mostly Bloomsbury group (3 shelves)

Álvaro Guevara Chilean NEA 1894-1951- "Mrs Lewis of the Cavendish", 1915; oil on canvas, in a gilt oak frame of plain form, 183x122cm. Provenance: Exhibited P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, London "Alvaro Guevara, A Chilean Painter in London and Paris", cat no 2, 3rd December 1974-10th January 1975 according to label attached to the stretcher verso, Note: Álvaro Guevara based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set. He was born 13 July 1894 in Valparaiso Chile. Guevara left Chile in 1909 and arrived in London in 1910. After failing his technical college exams he went on to the Slade School of Fine Art from 1913 to 1916. He married Meraud Guinness (1904-1993), a painter and member of the Guinness Family, and settled in France. He died in Aix-en-Provence 1951. Member of the Friday Club British group of painters, active 1905-22. Vanessa Bell conceived of and created the Friday Club in the summer of 1905. She was inspired by her experience of Parisian café life and the artists introduced to her in Paris by Clive Bell, and she hoped to create in London a similar group in which artists and friends could meet to exchange ideas. The Club met for lectures and held regular exhibitions in rented rooms, one taking place in Clifford`s Inn Hall in 1907, another at the Baillie Gallery in 1908. Its members were oddly assorted: Vanessa Bell drew upon students from the Royal Academy Schools and the Slade School of Fine Art, as well as her own family and family friends. Lecturers included Clive Bell, Basil Creighton, Walter Lamb and Roger Fry. Virginia Woolf remarked that in its early stages the Club was split: `one half of the committee shriek Whistler and French Impressionists, and the other are stalwart British`. In 1913 Essil Elmslie replaced Vanessa Bell as secretary to the Club, and meetings and discussions outside the annual exhibitions ceased. However, between 1910 and 1914 its exhibitions included young artists of talent, among them J. D. Innes, Derwent Lees (1885-1931), John Currie (c. 1890-1914) and Henry Lamb, and drew much comment from the press. Despite this, the history of the Club remains shadowy because no minutes of its meetings exist and not all its exhibition catalogues can be traced. (reference: Michael Parkin Gallery 1996)

WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo (213 x 133mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (dust-jacket soiled and torn, with minor loss). Provenance: Vivian Cox (inscription dated ‘June 1942’).

Jessie Etchells ` `Marigolds`, oil on board, signed and dated `52, 30 x 36.5 cm. Jessie Etchells was a contemporary of Vanessa Bell of The Bloomsbury Group

Woolf (Virginia) Monday or Tuesday first edition, 4 full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell (some offsetting), advertisement leaf at end, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed decorative boards by Vanessa Bell, a little rubbed at edges and spotted, [Woolmer 17; Kirkpatrick A5a], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1921. *** One of 1000 copies..

Woolf (Virginia) The Waves first edition, original purple cloth, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, an excellent copy, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1931.

Woolf (Virginia) The Waves first edition" Book Society bookplate on front pastedown original cloth minor rubbing to extreme corner-tips very good dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell chipped with slight loss to lower fore-corner of upper panel and head of spine 3 other small chips closed tear to upper fore-corner of upper panel overall very good [Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279] 8vo Hogarth Press" 1931.

Bloomsbury Group. The English Sense of Humour. An Essay, by Harold Nicolson, pub. Dropmore Press, 1946, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to, limited edition, 531/550, together with Strachey (Julia), The Man on the Pier. A Novel, 1st ed., 1951, one or two light spots, original cloth, some fading, d.j., slightly rubbed with small chips, 8vo, plus Bell (Quentin), Virginia Woolf. A Biography, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub. Hogarth Press, 1972, half-tone plates, bookplate and previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j.s, slight edge wear, 8vo, with others related including Frances Spalding’s Vanessa Bell, 1983, Quentin Bell’s Virginia Woolf. A Biography, 1990, Bloomsbury. The Artists, Authors and Designers by Themselves, 1990 and Richard Stone’s The Art of Bloomsbury, 1999 (approx. 117)

Duncan Grant (1885-1975) - Watercolour - Half length study for a portrait of Vanessa Bell at Charleston, 20.75ins x 14.5ins, signed "D. Grant" and dated 1916 (paper watermarked 1915), in painted moulded frame and glazed Note : Study for large full length portrait of Vanessa Bell now in The National Portrait Gallery. Provenance : Purchased - Christie`s South Kensington - British & Continental Pictures - 22nd August 2007 - Lot 517

Angelica Garnett (British, b.1918) - a Victorian glazed bookcase, circa 1860, the base panels later painted by Angelica Garnett, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, the panels depict Wine, Dead Game, Eggs and Fruit, 223 x 158 x 45cm (88 x 62 x 18in). Angelica Garnett (nee Bell) was born in 1918, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and niece of Virginia Woolf. She is a writer and painter and married David Garnett in 1942. She spent her childhood at Charleston, Sussex. Provenance: Hilton Hall, Hilton, Cambridgeshire. This Lot is from the Hilton Hall Collection.

Forster (E.M.). Howard`s End, pub. Edward Arnold, 1st ed., 1910, half-title, 12pp. pubs. ads. at rear, foxed, front free endpaper adhered to pastedown, rear free endpaper half torn away, orig. maroon cloth gilt, rubbed, spine sl. faded, 8vo, together with Woolf (Virginia), Walter Sickert, A Conversation, pub. by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1st ed., 1934, half-title, orig. printed wrappers designed by Vanessa Bell, lightly rubbed and soiled, slim 8vo, plus Linklater (Eric), A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits, with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, 1st ed., 1957, letterpress wood engs., front free endpaper with ms. inscription by the author, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and chipped d.j., spine faded, 8vo, plus sixteen others similar, incl. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, 1st US ed., 1931, in torn d.j., Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1st UK ed., 1959, in price-clipped and frayed d.j., Ulysses, by James Joyce, 2 vols., 2nd imp., October 1933, The New Forget-Me-Not, illust. by Rex Whistler, 1929, in chipped d.j., and The Wind Among the Reeds, by Yeats, 4th ed., 1903 (19)

WOOLF (Virginia) Walter Sickert a Conversation, Hogarth Press first edition 1934, pictorial cover by Vanessa Bell, generally good

VIRGINIA WOOLF: MONDAY OR TUESDAY, ill Vanessa Bell, 1921, 1st edn, orig cl bkd pict bds worn

Woolf (Virginia) The Waves first edition original purple cloth dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell light browning to upper panel and spine with a small sign of damp stain small piece missing to fore-edge affecting upper panel re-enforced with paper at edges on verso [Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279] 8vo Hogarth Press 1931.

Woolf, Virginia The years. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original jade-green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, minor browning, browned dust-jacket split at joint with neat adhesive tape on reverse, slightly frayed at extremities with minor loss to head of spine Note: Kirkpatrick A22(a).

Woolf, Virginia The waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. 8vo, original purple cloth gilt, dustwrapper by Vanessa Bell, torn at rear hinge, waterstain along lower edge, some foxing to wrapper, interior clean, contemporary ink inscription on front endpaper Note: Kirkpatrick A16a

VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) British Design for a carpet, circa 1913. Watercolour & pencil. Atelier stamp. 12.5x7.5 ins. Provenance: Alexander Postan Fine Art.

Woolf (Virginia). Three Guineas, 1st ed., pub. Hogarth Press, 1938, half-tone plates, original cloth, d.j., designed by Vanessa Bell, one or two minor closed tears, 8vo (1)