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VANESSA BELL
(1879-1961)

Clive Bell in a Punt
Oil on canvas,
10 x 14 inches
Signed (on the reverse):
V.B.
Painted around 1908

Ex coll: estate of the artist, until 1984; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England; to Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Alcron, Jr. Victoria, Texas; to private collection, London, until 2000


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Clive Bell in a Punt

Vanessa Bell has been considered an important artist in England since before World War I. Recently, she has been rediscovered by an international audience; not as the painter-sister of Virginia Woolf, or as the wife of art critic Clive Bell, but as the central figure of "Bloomsbury", and a painter who made an important contribution to the transformation of European art in the first half of the 20th century.

Clive Bell in a Punt is a radical painting for its date of execution of c. 1908. Using foreshortening and a flattened picture plane, Vanessa Bell has captured a quintessentially British moment; punting is a time honored tradition in England. With quick, bravura brushstrokes and her superb sense of design Vanessa depicts her husband relaxing in the boat. The piece de resistance of this wonderful painting is that Bell has cleverly incorporated her husband's signature blue socks.

 
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