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Vanessa Bell

1879–1961

Studland Beach. Verso: Group of Male Nudes by Duncan Grant c.1912
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Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

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Iris Tree

Vanessa Bell
1915

Chrysanthemums

Vanessa Bell
1920

Nude

Vanessa Bell
c.1922–3

Interior with a Table

Vanessa Bell
1921

Pheasants

Vanessa Bell
1931

Helen Dudley

Vanessa Bell
c.1915

Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece

Vanessa Bell
1914

Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting

Vanessa Bell
1912
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Bloomsbury Pie

Ann Travis
1974
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Vanessa

Dame Ethel Walker
1937
On display at Tate Britain part of Tate Archive is 50

Vanessa Bell

Duncan Grant
1942

No! No! Cézanne never used it

William Roberts
c.1934
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Letter from Duncan [Grant] to Vanessa Bell

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell
[14 June 1923]

Letter [from Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell
20 July 1932

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant
[c.May 1940]
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Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as a peaseblossom in a midsummer nights dream

Vanessa Bell
1925–6
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