© 1961 Estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy Henrietta Garnett/ National Portrait Gallery, London
Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Vanessa Bell
- Art Funded
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 40 x 34 cm
- Vendor
- Anthony d'Offay Gallery
An intimate and revealing portrait, suggestive of Virginia Woolf's invalidism, it was painted before the publication of any of her novels and in the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf.
Virginia Woolf disliked sitting for her portrait, and few likelnesses of her exist.
Provenance
Antony d'Offay.