painter (artist) | red | hands | portrait | green (color) | couch | woman | brushstrokes
Associated Places:
West Wittering | West Sussex | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2009-07-18 - 2009-10-18)Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)The Art of Bloomsbury : Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 106-107, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Bridget Elliott, Women artists and writers, modernist (im)positionings , Routledge & Kegan Paul, London New York, 1994, p. 86, fig. 3.6, NX180 F4 F4 E44 1994 (YCBA)Gretchen Gerzina, A room of their own : the Bloomsbury artists in American collections, , Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, 2008, p. 177, fig. 72, ND468.5.B55 R66 2008 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 184, no. 76, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christopher Reed, Bloomsbury rooms, modernism, subculture, and domesticity , Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2004, p. 173, no. 126, NX543 R44 2004 + (YCBA)Richard Shone, Bloomsbury portraits, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their circle , Phaidon, Oxford, 1993, p. 118, no. 90, ND 468 S56 1993 (YCBA)Richard Shone, The art of Bloomsbury, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant , Tate Publishing, London, 1999, p. 93, fig. 78, ND468.5 B55 S56 1999 + (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Relationships between members of the Bloomsbury Group were notoriously fluid, characterized by a disdain for what they regarded as bourgeois notions of fidelity, permanence, or exclusivity. When Duncan Grant painted this portrait of Vanessa Bell they had become partners and were living together at Eleanor, a small house on the West Sussex coast. Bell’s marriage to the critic Clive Bell had recently failed, and she was hoping to start a new relationship with Grant, who had previously been attached to a number of different male members of the group and was then falling for the young writer David Garnett. The stress of the war further strained the atmosphere, although the fatigue in Bell’s face may also be explained by the fact that she fell asleep during sittings. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016