Live Auction 784920th Century British & Irish Art
Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Lot 87

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

Vanessa Bell

Closed27 May 2010

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GBP 19,375

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Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Vanessa Bell
signed twice 'D. Grant' (lower right and lower left)
oil on canvas
31½ x 17½ in. (80 x 44.4 cm.)
Painted in the 1930s.

The artist.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
with Gallery Edward Harvane, London, where purchased by the present owner, February 1973.

Specialist note

Painted in the early 1930s, this sketch of Vanessa Bell shows her dressed in long skirt, cape and sunhat, perhaps for a private theatrical performance at Charleston.

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