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Portrait of Virginia Woolf or Vanessa Bell

Maker

(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Portrait of Virginia Woolf or Vanessa Bell

Date of Production

1916 - 1918

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 53 cm
Width: 32.8 cm

Accession Number

D.2008.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Alberto de Lacerda, gift, 21 February 2008

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

Donated by the Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda in memory of Edith Sitwell and Arthur Waley, 2008

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed with artist’s initials: “dG”.

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Now removed, see photo in file: printed label reading "The / Bloomsbury / Workshop / 12 Galen Place / London WC1A 2JR / 071-405 0632" and filled in with a typewriter "DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978) / Virginia Woolf / Pencil / c. 1918 / Signed".

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