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BELL, Vanessa.
Original study for "The Memoir Club"
The Memoir Club met for the first time on 4 March 1920. The members were: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Morgan Forster, Sydney Waterlow and Roger Fry. David Garnett became a member fairly soon afterwards. The club had no rules, save that there was an understanding that members were free to say anything they pleased, nor did it keep records. Leonard Woolf (Downhill . . . , p. 114) suggests that the membership was identical with the original thirteen members of Bloomsbury." - Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), p. 83. The present painting is a fine study, with the figures limned in, for the artist's celebrated portrait of the members of "The Memoir Club" which now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. On the back of the painting is a note of provenance from the Anthony D'Offay Gallery. Oil on canvas, approximately 19? x 11? inches, framed and glazed, no date but circa 1943. The painting is in excellent condition. |
Price: $35,000.00
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