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Artist or Maker: Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

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Description: Still life, Lucca
signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'VB/Lucca/1952' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
13 x 18 in. (33 x 45.7 cm.)

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Provenance: The artist's estate.
with Adams Gallery, London.
with Mayor Galler, London.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1982.

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Exhibited: London, Adams Gallery, Vanessa Bell Memorial Exhibition, October, 1961, no. 41.
New York, Katonah Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Collection, August - October 1987, no. 9.
Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Bloomsbury Artists at Charleston: Paintings from the Reader's Digest Corporate Collection, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 9.

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Notes: Property from The Reader's Digest Association Inc.

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