Inscribed in pencil on upper stretcher bar, left of center, "6" or "9"; printed in black on label on the canvas, top center: "The Bloomsbury Workshop | 12 Galen Place | London WC1A 2JR | 071-405 0632’ | VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) | Flowers in a Lustre Pot | Oil on canvas | c.1950 / Inscribed “VB” in hand of | Duncan Grant verso"; on canvas, right of center, written vertically in black chalk: "18 x 14"; in the hand of Duncan Grant (per label affixed on a label on the back of the canvas): "VB"; on upper and lower stretcher bars, pencil: "18"; on left and right stretcher bars, pencil: "14" On frame: paper label, upper left corner, inscribed with ballpoint pen: "Vanessa Bell | “Flowers in Lustre Pot” | c.1950 | ADO/2P 904" (last line crossed out with felt tip pen); blue tape, upper frame bar, inscribed with black felt pen: "079"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
botanical subject | vase | still life | flowers (plants)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Ian Collins, Modernism and memory : Rhoda Pritzker and the art of collecting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 86m88, 91 n. 12, 200, fig. 51, 200 fig., N6768 .M635 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA)