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Design for a folding screen - Adam and Eve
Maker
1879-1961
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Width: 50.9 cm
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The Omega Workshops, for which this design was made, favoured folding screens for their ability to rupture the boundary between two and three dimensions, bringing art off the wall and into the heart of a room.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 19/10/2024-23/02/2025
Modern Couples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, 26/04/2018-20/08/2018; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 10/10/2018-27/01/2019 ...More
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Dulwich Picture Gallery, 08/02/2017-04/06/2017
Radical Bloomsbury - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 16/04/2011-09/10/2011
Conversation Anglais - Le Group de Bloomsbury, La Piscine & Roubaix & France, 20/11/2009-27/02/2010
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
From Victorian to Modern - Innovation and tradition in the work
of Gwen John, Vanessa Bell and Laura Knight, Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk, England, 30/04/2007-17/06/2007
From Victorian to Modern - Innovation and tradition in the work
of Gwen John, Vanessa Bell and Laura Knight, Laing Art Gallery & Newcastle & England, 13/01/2007-15/04/2007
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
cat. no. D28
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 36
ill.
Reed, Christopher, Bloomsbury Rooms, New Haven and London 2004
p. 138
fig. 99 ...More
From Victorian to Modern - Innovation and tradition in the work of Gwen John, Vanessa Bell and Laura Knight, Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk, England, 2007
cat. no. 38
fig. 66
exhibited Newcastle and Norwich only
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 74
ill. on p. 151 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: upper centre, black ballpoint, Duncan Grant’s hand: “for wall dec.? by Vanessa Bell? / prob. not carried out. – D.G. 27/11/62”; lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263”.
Collector's mark: none.
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