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Vanessa Bell
(British, 1879-1961)
Street in Asolo, Italy
20 September 2023, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961)
Street in Asolo, Italy
stamped with Estate stamp 'VB' (lower right); further stamped with Estate stamp 'VB' (on panel verso)
oil on canvas, laid on panel
66 x 52cm (26 x 20 1/2in).
Painted in 1955
stamped with Estate stamp 'VB' (lower right); further stamped with Estate stamp 'VB' (on panel verso)
oil on canvas, laid on panel
66 x 52cm (26 x 20 1/2in).
Painted in 1955
Footnotes
Provenance
The Artist's Estate
With Anthony d'Offay
With The Bloomsbury Workshop, London
Private Collection, U.K.
Vanessa Bell painted several Italian towns during visits in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the present lot can be accurately dated to Spring 1955 when Bell stayed in a rented house La Mura in Asolo, with Grant and others including Edward le Bas.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.