Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
VANESSA BELL | THE FRUIT SELLER
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September 16, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
VANESSA BELL
1879-1961
THE FRUIT SELLER
pen and Indian ink on paper
unframed: 17.5 by 11.5cm.; 6¾ by 4½in.
framed: 37.5 by 31cm.; 14¾ by 12in.
Executed in 1933.
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The Artist's Family
Anthony d'Offay, London, where acquired by the present owners
The present work is the last of Vanessa Bell's four illustrations made for Virginia Woolf's biography of Flush, the pet spaniel that belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It depicts Flush dozing at the feet of Catterina, a fruit seller near the Brownings' home, the Casa Guidi in Florence.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.