Still Life at a Window

Maker

(Artists)
1879-1961

Title

Date of Production

1922

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 59.8 cm (canvas)
Width: 35.7 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1932.SC.26

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

rooftops

Label Text

One of Bell’s few works to reference an urban setting, the roof and chimney glimpsed through the window have been identified as the view from her studio in Paris, where she worked in the 1920s. Against the sunlit background, Bell rendered the objects in her still life – ceramic vessels, flowers and patterned curtains – in the rich, sombre palette she favoured in the years following the First World War.

This is the only work by Bell to have been owned by Samuel Courtauld, who purchased it directly from an exhibition at the London Artists’ Association in 1926.

Provenance

With the London Artists' Association, London; Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), London (December 1926); Samuel Courtauld Gift 1932.

Exhibition History

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

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme: The Bloomsbury Effect, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 15/12/2019-16/02/2020

Radical Bloomsbury - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 16/04/2011-09/10/2011

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed and dated : lower right & recto : : VB 1922

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