Woolf, Virginia [Vanessa Bell]. Recent Paintings by Vanessa Bell with a Foreword by Virginia Woolf. The London Artist's Association. The exhibit ran from February 4th to March 8th 1930 at 92 New Bond Street.. The Favil Press, 1930.

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Description: A crisp copy of this 8-page stapled pamphlet, one of only 500 copies printed. With some toning to the quality paper and light foxing along the left side and at the top edge of the front wrapper. With Virginia Woolf's 4-page foreword, a charming essay about her sister's paintings: "One defies a novelist to keep his life through twenty seven volumes of fiction safe from our scrutiny. But Mrs. Bell says nothing. Mrs. Bell is as silent as the grave. Her pictures do not betray her. Their reticence is inviolable. That is why they intrigue and draw us on; that is why, if it be true that they yield their full meaning only to those who can tunnel their way behind the canvas into masses and passages and relations and values of which we know nothing-- if it be true that she is a painter's painter--still her pictures claim us and make us stop. They give us an emotion. They offer a puzzle." *Perhaps Vanessa Bell is best known for her charming dust jacket designs on her sister's novels (To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years). Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 1879 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Stephen was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth (1846 1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London, and Vanessa lived there until 1904. She was educated at home by her parents in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896, and then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901. In 1906, when Vanessa Bell started to think of herself an artist, she formed the Friday Club with the purpose to create a place in London that was more favorable to painting. Vanessa was encouraged by the Post-Impressionist exhibitions organized by Roger Fry, and she copied their bright colors and bold forms in her artworks. In 1914, she turned to abstraction. (Wikipedia) First Edition (One of approximately 500 copies issued)

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