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...
