Modern British Day Auction
Modern British Day Auction
Vanessa Bell
Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Auction Closed
June 30, 10:59 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Vanessa Bell
1879 - 1961
Portrait of Virginia Woolf
watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
unframed: 24.5 by 30.5cm.; 9¾ by 12¼in.
framed: 43 by 50cm.; 17 by 19¾in.
Executed circa 1950s.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Leonard Woolf, by whom gifted to Trekkie Parsons, 1969
Sale, Christie's London, 14 March 1973, lot 104
Sale, Christie's London, 7 June 1985, lot 91
Sale, Spink, London, 24 May 1986, where acquired by the present owner
Sale, Christie's London, 14 March 1973, lot 104
Sale, Christie's London, 7 June 1985, lot 91
Sale, Spink, London, 24 May 1986, where acquired by the present owner
John Lehmann, Virginia Woolf and Her World, Thames and Hudson, London, 1975, illustrated p. 33