Vanessa Bell

Private Collection, America

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2024

Richard Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits, Phaidon, Oxford, 1976, fig. 144, p. 241

Laura Ashley catalogue, 1987, illustrated p. 78

Christopher Reed, Bloomsbury Rooms: modernism, subculture, and the domesticity, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004, p. 270

A Room of Their Own: the Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections, (exh. cat.), Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, 18 December 2008 - 5 April 2009, p. 205

Sarah Milroy, Vanessa Bell, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2017, p. 133

From Omega to Charleston: the Art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant 1910-1934, (exh. cat.), Piano Nobile, London, 16 February - 28 April 2018, p. 107

The cartoon of this carpet model was presented for sale by Replica Shoes 's on 8th October 2008 in London, lot 16. An identical example was exhibited by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell in the Music Room of the Lefevre Gallery in London in December 1932. The design in an abbreviated form was worked in wool cross-stitch as a cushion cover, by Ethel Grant, which is in the Garden Room at Charleston (not currently on display).

These rugs were later made by Laura Ashley, part of the 'Grapes Grey' series, in 1987. The rugs were made on demand, so the edition size is unknown.