Still Life at a Window
Copyright
© Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
ⓒ Work in copyright. All rights reserved.
Maker
1879-1961
Title
Still Life at a Window
Date of Production
1922
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 59.8 cm (canvas)
Width: 35.7 cm (canvas)
Width: 35.7 cm (canvas)
Object Number
P.1932.SC.26
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
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.
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.
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed and dated : lower right & recto : : VB 1922
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, Courtauld Gallery, London, 25/05/2024-06/10/2024
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme: The Bloomsbury Effect, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, 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
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