Vanessa Bell (British 1879-1961)
Design for Rug
gouache
25 x 12 cm, framed and glazed 51 x 38.5 cm

Painted circa 1938.

Provenance
With The Bloomsbury Workshop, London.
London, Anthony d'Offay, 1983, no.4.
Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, 7 January 1991, stock no. 71899.
Sold by the above, Christie's, 19 November 2004, lot 36.
Private collection, UK.

Exhibited
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993.

Condition Report

In good colour. The sheet is slightly wavy in mount. There are several creases visible to the sheet. Some areas of mild craquelure to the gouache in the lower portion of the design. Some minor spots of surface dirt and minor rubbing to some of the edges. Under glass and unexamined out of frame.