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Vanessa Bell

1879–1961

Studland Beach. Verso: Group of Male Nudes by Duncan Grant c.1912
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Biography

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

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Artworks

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  • Iris Tree

    Vanessa Bell
    1915

  • Chrysanthemums

    Vanessa Bell
    1920

  • Nude

    Vanessa Bell
    c.1922–3

  • Interior with a Table

    Vanessa Bell
    1921

  • Pheasants

    Vanessa Bell
    1931

  • Helen Dudley

    Vanessa Bell
    c.1915

  • Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece

    Vanessa Bell
    1914

  • Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting

    Vanessa Bell
    1912
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Artist as subject

  • Bloomsbury Pie

    Ann Travis
    1974
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  • Vanessa

    Dame Ethel Walker
    1937

  • Vanessa Bell

    Duncan Grant
    1942

  • No! No! Cézanne never used it

    William Roberts
    c.1934
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    Walks of Art: Bonnie Greer on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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    Opinion: 'Middlebrow' art

    Hana Leaper

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  • Letter from Duncan [Grant] to Vanessa Bell

    Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell
    [14 June 1923]

  • Letter [from Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell

    Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell
    20 July 1932

  • Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

    Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant
    [c.May 1940]
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  • Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as a peaseblossom in a midsummer nights dream

    Vanessa Bell
    1925–6
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