Not on display
- Artist
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 908 x 730 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sir Kenneth Clark (later Lord Clark of Saltwood) through the Contemporary Art Society 1946
- Reference
- N05749
Display caption
At the mid-point of her career, Vanessa Bell’s painting celebrated her own family, her house and her garden at Charleston in Sussex.
She loved France, and regarded her painting as a kind of Impressionism. This painting of a brace of pheasants, with a bottle and glass of (undoubtedly French) red wine, conveys the pleasures of food and drink. She uses them as a subject to show her skill with colour, with a warm and rich harmony of tones. The painting is quite large for her at this time.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
N05749 PHEASANTS 1931
Inscr. ‘Vanessa Bell 1931’ b.r.
Canvas, 35 3/4×28 3/4 (91×73).
Presented by Sir Kenneth Clark through the Contemporary Art Society 1946.
Coll:
Purchased by Sir Kenneth Clark at Agnew's 1931.
Exh: Recent Pictures by British Artists, Agnew's, November–December 1931 (39); British Council, Contemporary British Art, Toledo, U.S.A., 1942 (6); Arts Council and tour, 1964 (53).
Repr: John Russell, From Sickert to 1948, 1948, pl.23.
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Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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