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Portrait of Roger Fry

Vanessa Bell, 1912

Vanessa Bell became close friends with the art critic Roger Fry in 1910 and began an affair with him the following year. This portrait was painted when the lovers spent a short holiday together at Niton, Isle of Wight in 1912. Vanessa was experimenting with a pseudo-pointilliste technique previously used by Duncan Grant which she had named his 'leopard manner'.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Roger Fry, 1912

Date supported

2005

Medium and material

Oil on panel

Dimensions

29.3 x 23.6 cm

Grant

20000

Total cost

55000

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