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| Artist | Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) |
| Title | Byzantine Lady |
| Date | 1912 |
| Medium | Oil on composite paper board |
| Provenance | With Anthony d'Offay Ltd., London; from whom purchased by the Fine Art Society, London, in July 1977; from whom purchased by the Department of the Environment in July 1977 |
| Exhibition | ''Radical Bloomsbury'' Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 16/4-9/10/2011; "Government Art Collection: Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling Light", Whitechapel Gallery, London, 16/12/2011-26/2/2012; "Revealed: Government Art Collection", Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 17/11/2012-24/2/2013 & Ulster Museum, Belfast 15/3-9/6/2013. |
| Dimensions | height: 72.00 cm, width: 51.50 cm |
| Inscription | none |
| Acquisition | Purchased from the Fine Art Society, July 1977 |
| Location | Other, public exhibitions, |
| GAC number | 13349 |
Other works by this artist
 | White Roses | Oil on canvas GAC 4827 |
 | Flowers | Oil on canvas 1930s GAC 4956 |
 | Asters and Hydrangeas | Oil on canvas GAC 5793 |
 | Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (b.1918), as Mistress ... | Oil on canvas GAC 7970 |
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This work contains the following subjects; choose a subject below to cross-refer to other works in the collection:
Similar works by subject:
Bloomsbury Group
 | Venice | Oil on canvas 1948 GAC 1192 |
 | Still Life. "The Blue China Plate" | Oil on canvas 1949 GAC 1195 |
 | Firle Beacon | Oil on canvas 1953 GAC 2618 |
 | Still Life Group | Tempera on paper 1955 GAC 3654 |
 | Granada | Oil on canvas Spring 1936 GAC 3685 |
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This work contains the following Sitters; choose a link below to cross-refer to other works in the collection:
Similar works with sitter:
unknown woman
 | Portrait of a Lady | Oil on canvas 1530s GAC 2280 |
 | Lady with a Tulip | Oil on canvas 1639-1650 GAC 3425 |
 | Portrait of a Woman | Oil on panel 1640 GAC 15745 |
 | Portrait of a Woman | Pastel on paper c.1775 GAC 1503 |
 | Young Man Lifted from a River, Apparently Drowned | Oil on canvas c.1787 GAC 13338 |
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Vanessa Bell painted and carried out decorative commissions throughout her life, designing fabrics, cushion covers, book jackets and interiors. Like her sister the writer Virginia Woolf, she belonged to the circle known as the Bloomsbury Group which included Clive Bell, whom she married in 1907. Bell worked for the Omega Workshops, an association of artists/craftsmen active from 1913 to 1919. She was also involved in the decorative work at Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in Sussex. Now open to the public, this was Bell’s home until her death in 1961. Bell and Grant’s paintings were greatly influenced by exhibitions of Post-Impressionist art in London in 1910 and 1912, in which works by Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin were shown.