Art Funded
Portrait of Virginia Woolf
© 1961 Estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy Henrietta Garnett/ National Portrait Gallery, London
Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)
National Portrait Gallery
1912
An intimate and revealing portrait, suggestive of Virginia Woolf's invalidism, it was painted before the publication of any of her novels and in the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. Virginia Woolf disliked sitting for her portrait, and few likelnesses of her exist.
- Medium: oil on board
- Dimensions: 40 x 34 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £8625 ( Total: £34,500; Export stopped)
- ArtFunded in: 1988
- Vendor: Anthony d'Offay Gallery
Provenance
Antony d'Offay.
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