Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Title:
Flowers in a Lustre Pot
Date:
ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches (46.4 x 55.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
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
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2012.30.4
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
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)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:63930