Asters and Hydrangeas

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street

Vanessa Bell painted and carried out decorative commissions throughout her life, designing fabrics, cushion covers, book jackets and interiors. Like her sister the writer Virginia Woolf, she belonged to the circle known as the Bloomsbury Group which included Clive Bell, whom she married in 1907. Bell worked for the Omega Workshops, an association of artists/craftsmen active from 1913 to 1919. She was also involved in the decorative work at Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in Sussex. Now open to the public, this was Bell’s home until her death in 1961. Bell and Grant’s paintings were greatly influenced by exhibitions of Post-Impressionist art in London in 1910 and 1912, in which works by Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin were shown.

Places

Subjects

vase (as Subject), painting (as Subject), still life, Bloomsbury Group, aster, hydrangea, petal, pear, flower, table cloth, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)

Title

Asters and Hydrangeas

Date

c. 1930s-40s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 55.00 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, May 1962

Inscription

br: Vanessa Bell

Provenance

Collection of Barbara, Countess of Moray; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1962

GAC number

5793