Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury (Tate)
Thomas Kennedy (Ed.)
Tate Publishing, 2026
€59,00
The exhibition catalogue explores Bell and Grant’s legacy as core members of the famed Bloomsbury Group.
This joyful monograph celebrates the extraordinary artistic partnership between Vanassa Bell (1879-1961), sister of Virgina Woolf, and Duncan Grant (1885-1978) that spended more than 50 years and the enduring impact these two remarkable artists had on British art.
The group’s commitment to living lives centred around freedom and radical experimentation had a significant influence on the course of art, literature, and societal thought in Britain. Featuring over 250 works, including vivid portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, decorative works on furniture, ceramics, textiles, and much more, and a once-in-a-lifetime restaging of Duncan Grant’s studio — relocated for the exhibition from their Sussex home, Charleston. As well as emphasising Bell and Grant’s shared creative endeavours, readers will discover how the artists also forged their own paths.
ISBN: 9781917055444
