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Duncan Grant’s Last Portrait of Vanessa Bell Found Among Family Papers, Donated to Charleston

3. November 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie
Bright comic of a smiling grey-haired archivist and a young conservator in white gloves holding a framed pencil sketch of a woman in profile in a painted Sussex farmhouse studio

A previously unknown pencil-and-biro drawing of Vanessa Bell, believed to be Duncan Grant’s final portrait of her, surfaced while Tate Britain prepared its “Inside Bloomsbury” show and has been given to Charleston.

Categories Artists Tags Bloomsbury Group, British modernism, Charleston, drawing, Duncan Grant, Sussex, Tate Britain, Vanessa Bell

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