London Art Fair has partnered with Charleston, the modernist home and studio of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, for its annual Museum Partnership. At the Fair, Charleston will launch ’50 for 50’ – an ambitious search for 50 of the most significant Bloomsbury group artist paintings still held in private collections. Charleston, situated in the South Downs National Park, was the regular meeting place of some of the 20th Century’s most radical artists, writers...
As the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell (1910-96) proved to be one of the very last links with the Bloomsbury Group. Now a collection of his striking and singular ceramics, created for the celebrated Fulham Pottery, will be offered in Ewbank’s Interiors & Modern Design auction on January 26th. Bell inherited his family’s artistic talents and went on to establish his own reputation, not only as...
A profile of the international Bloomsbury auction house with Rupert Powell, managing director. Bloomsbury Auctions was founded in 1983 by a triumvirate of ex-Sotheby’s employees from the book department. Back then, Sotheby’s attitude was that books of small value, under £300, were not worth handling, but there were certainly plenty of people who were interested in books worth less than £300—John Kerr, Frank Herrmann and David Stagg among them. In the financial downturn of 1981-82...
