Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
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Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

Vase of Flowers: Design for the Omega Workshops

已結束2012年12月13日

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Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Vase of Flowers: Design for the Omega Workshops
oil on paper laid on board
14½ x 36 in. (36.8 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1917.

The artist's estate until 1987.

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This design, almost certainly for the headboard (or possibly endboard) of a bedstead, was made in 1917. Although the Omega Workshops was still in business at that time, Vanessa Bell (and Grant) were by then doing very little work for the enterprise and, instead, undertook some private commissions in their own names rather than under the anonymous logo of the Omega. Bell designed a bedhead, for example, for Mary Hutchinson and the present work may be related to that commission. The languorous flowers and acanthus leaves are typical of her decorative motifs and also appear in, for example, her major wall decoration The Tub (Tate Britain), also of 1917.

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