Frieze Masters Highlights
Listen to Philip's thoughts on this monumental portrait of Vanessa Bell, by Duncan Grant - one of the highlights of our presentation at Frieze Masters 2023 (Booth F07).
Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell are the two artists heralded as the pioneers of the Bloomsbury group. This is one of Grant’s most artistically progressive early portraits, painted around the time of the conception of his and Bell’s first and only child, Angelica. Executed during Grant’s most experimental decade, it is powerfully redolent of the French school influences of Cezanne and Picasso.
