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1 giorno fa · Vanessa Bell was a versatile artist and some of the fun of her work as well as its originality emerges in this little show. Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall is at the Courtauld Gallery, to September 22; courtauld.ac.uk . Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art is at the Courtauld’s Project Space to October 6; courtauld.ac.uk
5 giorni fa · Gardening Bohemia: Vanessa Bell’s Garden at Charleston. To coincide with the exhibition Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, we visited Charleston, Sussex to meet head gardener Harry Hoblyn. Bell shared the farmhouse, studio and garden at Charleston with her partner, fellow Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant, and her ...
3 giorni fa · In 1940 as the Battle of Britain was being fought above the skies of Sussex Bishop George Bell commissioned Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant to paint the scenes we see at Berwick Church today. Vanessa’s depiction of the Nativity in the Sussex Barn at Charleston with Firle Beacon behind is filled with allegory.
1 giorno fa · Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were two of the most important figures within the Bloomsbury group, the bohemian intellectual cluster of creatives characters who made an indelible mark on the trajectory of the arts in Britain through the twentieth century.
5 giorni fa · Charleston was where the Bloomsbury group went to escape the bustle of the city – Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell would seek haven and inspiration among the richly decorated rooms...
3 giorni fa · In 1920 Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell painted “Mrs Dalloway’s Party,” a painting that quickly became shrouded in mystery. Exhibited briefly in 1922, the highly praised painting disappeared until British art dealer Anthony d’Offay offered it in 1983 from the estate of Virginia Woolf.
5 giorni fa · He enjoyed an enduring relationship with Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell, with whom he had a daughter, Angelica, in 1918. During the years between the wars, they adopted a similar manner in their painting, loosely reflecting the influence of the Post-Impressionist aesthetic.
