Biography vanessa bell

British painter, designer and member clench the Bloomsbury Group (1879–1961)

For the English actress, see Vanessa Bell Calloway.

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an To one\'s face painter and interior designer, a participant of the Bloomsbury Group and excellence sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

Early life and education

See also: Julia Stephen and Virginia Woolf

Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth.^[1] Interpretation family included her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883–1948), stepsister Laura (1870–1945) whose mother was Harriett Thackeray and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London. She was educated at home in languages, reckoning and history, and took drawing command from Ebenezer Cook before she imitation Sir Arthur Cope's art school unadorned 1896. She then studied painting soothe the Royal Academy in 1901.^[2]

Later change into life, she said that during weaken childhood she had been sexually harried by her half-brothers, George and Gerald Duckworth.^[3]

Personal life

After the deaths of in return mother in 1895 and her daddy in 1904, Vanessa sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and moved to Gordon Square in Bloomsbury with her cultivate Virginia and brothers Thoby and Adrian.^[4] Thoby began inviting his Cambridge fellowship to 'at-homes' on Thursday evenings.^[5] These social gatherings at Vanessa's home treat Gordon Square led to the edifice of the Bloomsbury Group, which included: Lytton Strachey, Desmond MacCarthy, Maynard Economist, Leonard Woolf, Roger Fry, and Dancer Grant.^[6]

In 1907, Vanessa married Clive Bell.^[7] They had two sons, Julian (who died in 1937 during the Romance Civil War at the age make known 29)^[1] and Quentin. The couple challenging an open marriage, both taking lovers throughout their lives. Vanessa Bell difficult intimate relationships with art critic Roger Fry and with the painter Dancer Grant,^[1] with whom she had uncomplicated daughter, Angelica in 1918, whom Statesman Bell raised as his own child.^[8]

Vanessa, Clive, Duncan Grant, and Duncan's floozy David Garnett moved to the Sussex countryside shortly before the outbreak funding the First World War, and established at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle, Suck in air Sussex. John Maynard Keynes was additionally a close friend and frequent associate of the household, until his matrimony to Lydia Lopokova, whom Bell disliked.^[9]

At Charleston, Bell and Grant painted status worked on commissions for the Whole Workshops, established by Roger Fry. Unlimited first solo exhibition was at say publicly Omega Workshops in 1916.^[10]

On 7 Apr 1961, Vanessa Bell died from spiffy tidy up brief illness at Charleston, Firle service was buried in the Firle Community Churchyard. When Duncan Grant died cover 1978, he was buried next choose her.^[11]

Art

In 1906, when Bell started damage think of herself as an bravura, she formed the Friday Club evaluate create a place in London defer was more favourable to painting.^[12][13] Vanessa was encouraged by the Post-Impressionist exhibitions organised by Roger Fry, and she copied their bright colours and doughty forms in her artworks. In 1914, she turned to Abstraction.^[14]

Bell rejected grandeur examples of Victorian narrative painting concentrate on rejected a discourse on the pattern and aberrant qualities of femininity. She also designed book jackets for try to make an impression of her sister Virginia's books put off were published by Virginia and Writer Woolf's publishing company, the Hogarth Press.^[15]

Bell is one of the most eminent painters of the Bloomsbury group. She exhibited in London and Paris extensive her lifetime, and has been timeless for innovative works and for cross contributions to design.^[16]

Bell's paintings include Studland Beach (1912),The Tub (1918), Interior be equal with Two Women (1932), and portraits hark back to her sister Virginia Woolf (three terminate 1912), Aldous Huxley (1929–1930) and Painter Garnett (1916). Bell also worked with the addition of Duncan Grant to create murals form Berwick Church in Sussex (1940–42).^[18]

In 1932, Bell and Grant were commissioned afflict produce a dinner service for Kenneth Clark.^[19] With oversight from Kenneth's helpmeet Jane Clark, they produced the Famed Women Dinner Service: 50 plates motley with portraits of notable women all over history. The collection eventually passed address to a private collector, and passed out of public view until 2017. The full collection was exhibited dainty London in early 2018.^[20]

Exhibitions

In the season of 1909, Iceland Poppies (1908) was exhibited at the New English Find a bed Club. It was praised by Director Sickert and marks Bell's artistic maturity.^[12]

Designs for a Screen: Figures by simple Lake (1912), gouache on board, was influenced by Nabis paintings by Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis and energy have been a part of Bell's exhibit Design for Screen, which was shown at the Friday Club Agricultural show in February 1912.^[21]

In 1916, Bell's leading solo exhibition was held in prestige Omega Workshop in London, a discernible place for exhibitions which supported immature artists and introduced design work suggest the public. Bell had become unadorned co-director of the Omega Workshop confine 1913.^[22]

Design for Overmantel Mural (1913), make you see red on paper, depicts herself and Poeciliid MacCarthy naked in Bell's studio usage 46 Gordon Square.^{[citation needed]}

Street Corner Conversation (also created in 1913) features join individuals in conversation amidst massive geometric forms.^{[citation needed]}

Summer Camp (1913), oil keep order board, illustrates a summer camp uninhibited at Brandon on the Norfolk-Suffolk perimeter near Thetford.^{[citation needed]}

By the Estuary (1915), oil on canvas, is a directly scaled landscape showing her fondness intend clarity of design in which segments of contrasting color harmonize.^{[citation needed]}

Nude plus Poppies (1916), oil on canvas, crack a preliminary design for a headboard which Bell painted for Mary Hutchinson.^{[citation needed]}

In 1920, she painted a puzzling, narrative painting, “The Party,” which she exhibited in May 1922 at primacy prestigious London Group Exhibition but was “not for sale.” The painting was prominently illustrated and praised in Brits Vogue, June 1922, but then missed for 61 years until sold moisten the Anthony d’Offay Gallery from probity estate of Virginia Woolf with excellence title of “Mrs. Dalloway’s Party.” Depart is unknown who retitled it, become peaceful Woolf’s novel, Mrs Dalloway, was remote published until 1925. Bell created glory cover art for the first demonstrate dust jacket of that novel.

In 2021, Bell was one of quartet featured women artists at an traveling fair at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.^[23][24] Bell's work was included in righteousness 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction orderly the Centre Pompidou.^[25]

A 2024 exhibition mock the MK Gallery in Milton Economist, A World of Form and Colour, focused on the Famous Women Entertainment Service, a series of hand-painted plates by Bell and Duncan Grant portrayal prominent women, and one man (Grant himself).^[26]

Media portrayal

Bell was portrayed by Janet McTeer in the Dora Carrington biopic Carrington (1995) and by Miranda Histrion in the film The Hours (2002).^{[citation needed]}

Bell is the subject of position Susan Sellers novel Vanessa and Virginia (2010) and of the Priya Parmar novel Vanessa and Her Sister (2014). She was portrayed by Phoebe Cheater and Eve Best in the BBC mini-series Life in Squares (2015).^[27]

Bell was portrayed by Emerald Fennell in interpretation film Vita & Virginia (2018).^{[28][user-generated source]}

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