Property Sold to Benefit Clifton College, Bristol
Vanessa Bell
Mauve and Red Tulips
Auction Closed
November 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Vanessa Bell
1879 - 1961
Mauve and Red Tulips
oil on canvas
unframed: 61 by 45.5cm.; 24 by 18in.
framed: 72.5 by 57cm.; 28½ by 22½in.
Executed circa 1927-28.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Cecil Taylor, by whom bequeathed to Clifton College, Bristol
Somerset, Street, The Atkinson Gallery, The London Group 1913 - 1939, 1 - 28 February 1995, no. 22
A highly characteristic still life by Bell showing tulips in a heavy glass vase next to a ball of string in a dish, seen almost certainly on Bell’s writing-desk.
Richard Shone
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