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Rug design

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1879-1961

Title

Rug design

Date of Production

1913 - 1914

Medium

graphite and bodycolour on wove paper, with pinholes at all four corners

Dimensions

Height: 47.9 cm
Width: 56.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.86

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

Bell was interested in obtaining the effect of mosaic in her paintings. In a letter to Fry, Bell wrote that she considered ‘the picture as patches, each of which has to be filled by one definite space of colour… not allowing myself to brush the patches into each other’. She also noted how white spaces were left between the patches and black lines were introduced to add brilliance to the colours. The colour palette and the application of paint are indebted to Cézanne, whose work Bell had seen in Paris.

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958

Exhibition History

Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 25/05/2024-06/10/2024



Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 19/10/2024-23/02/2025 ...More

Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 05/05/2021-23/08/2021

Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017

Picasso, Braque, Leger and the International Language of Cubism, Complesso del Vittoriano & Rome & Italy, 07/03/2013-30/06/2013

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

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000

Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990

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. D5

Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 14
p. 140
fig. 4

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 5
ill. on p. 90 ...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. 39
fig. 41
exhibited Newcastle and Norwich only

Women in Abstraction, Centre-Pompidou, Paris 5 May - 23 Aug. 2021 and Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 2 Oct. 2021 - 27 Feb. 2022 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite: “9”. Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263.”.

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