Design for Lalla Vandervelde's Flat
Maker
(artist)
1866-1934
1866-1934
Title
Design for Lalla Vandervelde's Flat
Date of Production
1916
Medium
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on Whatman paper laid down on cardboard
Papermark: Verso: centre, stamped in blue, with picture of a palette: “SMITH’S / Specially Prepared Boards / FOR PROCESS WORK, / Made in Quarter, Half & Imperial Sizes / COVERED WITH WHATMAN’S PAPER, / IN EITHER HOT-PRESSED, NOT OR ROUGH SURFACE. / 117, HAMPSTEAD ROAD, LONDON, N.W. / Factories: 2 & 3, Princes of Wales Place”.
Papermark: Verso: centre, stamped in blue, with picture of a palette: “SMITH’S / Specially Prepared Boards / FOR PROCESS WORK, / Made in Quarter, Half & Imperial Sizes / COVERED WITH WHATMAN’S PAPER, / IN EITHER HOT-PRESSED, NOT OR ROUGH SURFACE. / 117, HAMPSTEAD ROAD, LONDON, N.W. / Factories: 2 & 3, Princes of Wales Place”.
Dimensions
Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 37.5 cm
Width: 37.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1958.PD.83
Mode of Acquisition
Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
interior design
apartments
Label Text
In October 1916, Lalla Vandervelde, the wife of the Belgian ambassador, commissioned the Omega Workshops to decorate her London flat. Roger Fry undertook most of the work himself. This design shows the Omega’s distinctive use of colours: walls in sienna with pilasters in pale petunia.
Provenance
Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958
Exhibition History
Post-Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops, The Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, East Sussex, 14/09/2019-19/01/2020
Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010
Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004 ...More
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, 01/09/1986-01/10/1986
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less
Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010
Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004 ...More
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, 01/09/1986-01/10/1986
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less
Literature
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
cat. no. D45
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 70
ill.
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 19
ill. on p. 171
cat. no. D45
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 70
ill.
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 19
ill. on p. 171
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263.”.
Collector's mark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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