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- Title:
Vanessa Bell at Her Easel
- Date:
- 1914
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 19 x 18 inches (48.3 x 45.7 cm), Frame: 27 3/4 x 25 inches (70.5 x 63.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, upper stretcher bar, center, piece of paper (photocopy of a label) taped by its top edge, painting verso: "Anthony d’Offay 9 Dering Street New Bond Street London W1 01-629 1578 | Artist DUNCAN GRANT | Title Portrait of Vanessa Bell painting | Medium Oil on canvas | Date 1914 | Size 19 x 17 ½ ins | Purchased by Mr and Mrs G G H Walden 1975"; inscribed in black ballpoint pen, upper stretcher bar, right, self-adhesive paper: “DLA-341”; inscribed in black ballpoint penower stretcher bar, center: “duncan GRANT”; inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, left stretcher bar, center, orange self-adhesive label, : “[…..] / cut off B[…] / large[?] / AGG[?] / […]”; paper label printed with black ink, upper frame rail, center, frame verso: "THOS AGNEW & SONS LTD | No 47878 | LONDON, | 43 OLD BOND STREET | PICCADILLY, W1X 4BA"; inscribed in black marker on blue tape, upper frame rail, right, frame verso: "116036-098"; inscribed in pencil, right frame rail, center, frame verso: "25/73C"; inscribed in pencil, lower frame rail, center, upside-down, frame verso: "25/73C"; inscribed in pencil reinforced with black felt-tip pen, lower frame rail, left, upside-down, frame verso: "DG5"; inscribed in pencil, left frame rail, center, frame verso: "25/73C".
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2012.30.25
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- artist | chair | easel | genre subject | painter | painting (visual work) | patterns | woman
- Associated People:
- Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:63968
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Ian Collins, Modernism and memory : Rhoda Pritzker and the art of collecting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 93-95, 179, 204, fig. 69, 204 fig,, N6768 .M635 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martina Droth, Britain in the world: Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, p. 147, fig. 60, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]