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Rug design
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1879-1961
(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
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
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
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.”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite: “9”. Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263.”.
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