[Vwoolf] Little-known Vanessa Bell painting.

[Diane Gillespie]

The painting is reproduced in black and white in my "Virginia Woolf, 
Vanessa Bell and Painting" (p. 130) in /The Edinburgh Companion to 
Virginia Woolf and the Arts,/ ed. Maggie Humm (2010).  Barbara Ginsberg 
kindly described the colors for me and I included them in my discussion 
of the painting in relation to Woolf's description of the party in /Mrs. 
Dalloway /(pp. 129-131).

Diane Gillespie


On 10/18/2018 9:44 AM, Christine Froula via Vwoolf wrote:
>
> Fantastic recovery! And--are those /fingers/ on the young woman (Mary 
> Hutchinson)'s left shoulder? if so... whose..?
>
> On 10/18/2018 11:04 AM, Regina Marler via Vwoolf wrote:
>> Dear Woolfians,
>>
>> My friends Barbara and Howard Ginsberg bought this painting from 
>> Caroline Cuthbert at Anthony d'Offay in the 1980s. Caroline only 
>> vaguely remembers the story of its discovery by Quentin Bell and 
>> someone else, still rolled, in the "Monk's House attic." The painting 
>> has somehow picked up a title, "Mrs. Dalloway's Party"--I think a 
>> selling title given by d'Offay. It's signed VB 1922 in pencil on the 
>> verso, if I recall.
>>
>> Looks like Mary Hutchinson on the left, and (at a stretch) Iris Tree 
>> in center? She was plump in this period but I'm not sure she was 
>> quite so monumental.
>>
>> Diane Gillespie referred to the painting in the Edinburgh Companion, 
>> I think. Jane Garrity hopes to include mention of the painting (and a 
>> reproduction, if possible) in a forthcoming essay. Jane and I welcome 
>> any further thoughts you may have--whether about VB's making of this 
>> painting, VW's acquisition and non-display of it, or your musings on 
>> the painting itself.
>>
>> With thanks in advance,
>>
>> Regina Marler
>>
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