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Lot 6AR

Duncan Grant
(British, 1885-1978)
Vanessa Bell 27.8 x 25.5 cm. (11 x 10 in.)

1 July 2020, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £40,062.50 inc. premium

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Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978)

Vanessa Bell
indistinctly signed with initials and inscribed 'dg/VB' (upper right)
pencil and oil on board
27.8 x 25.5 cm. (11 x 10 in.)
Painted circa 1913

Footnotes

Provenance
With The Bloomsbury Workshop, 19 July 1993
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
The Bloomsbury Workshop, Images of Vanessa - Paintings and Drawings by and of Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961), 8 June-29 July 1993

This head of Vanessa Bell was almost certainly painted in the summer of 1913 when the artists were at a camp at Brandon, near Thetford. There are similarly expressive heads painted on the same holiday.

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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