About this artwork
Editor: This is Vanessa Bell's "Interior with a Table," from the Tate Collection. The sunlight flooding in makes me think of lazy afternoons. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It whispers of quiet domesticity, doesn’t it? Bell captures a sort of painterly hush. The way she flattens the perspective, almost like a stage set, pulls me in. Do you notice how the interior space and the landscape beyond seem to merge? Editor: Yes, it’s like the outside is invited in. It feels very intimate. Curator: Exactly! It’s a very personal glimpse into her world, rendered with such gentle strokes. It’s like a visual poem. Editor: I never thought of it that way. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure. It’s all about seeing with new eyes, isn’t it?
Artwork details
- Dimensions
- support: 540 x 641 mm frame: 703 x 819 x 72 mm
- Location
- Tate Collections
- Copyright
- © Tate | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Comments
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-interior-with-a-table-n05078
Bell and Duncan Grant had established their home in rural Sussex in 1916, but they continued to seek inspiration in the France, making frequent visits to Paris and the South. This picture was painted at La Maison Blanche, a villa just outside St Tropez which they rented from Bell’s friend Rose Vildrac. They stayed there for five months from October 1921, with Bell’s children Quentin, Julian and Angelica. Bell wrote ‘It’s delicious to be in the South – one forgets how nice it is – all the colours and the light and space and everything looking so baked through’. Gallery label, July 2004
About this artwork
Editor: This is Vanessa Bell's "Interior with a Table," from the Tate Collection. The sunlight flooding in makes me think of lazy afternoons. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It whispers of quiet domesticity, doesn’t it? Bell captures a sort of painterly hush. The way she flattens the perspective, almost like a stage set, pulls me in. Do you notice how the interior space and the landscape beyond seem to merge? Editor: Yes, it’s like the outside is invited in. It feels very intimate. Curator: Exactly! It’s a very personal glimpse into her world, rendered with such gentle strokes. It’s like a visual poem. Editor: I never thought of it that way. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure. It’s all about seeing with new eyes, isn’t it?
Comments
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bell-interior-with-a-table-n05078
Bell and Duncan Grant had established their home in rural Sussex in 1916, but they continued to seek inspiration in the France, making frequent visits to Paris and the South. This picture was painted at La Maison Blanche, a villa just outside St Tropez which they rented from Bell’s friend Rose Vildrac. They stayed there for five months from October 1921, with Bell’s children Quentin, Julian and Angelica. Bell wrote ‘It’s delicious to be in the South – one forgets how nice it is – all the colours and the light and space and everything looking so baked through’. Gallery label, July 2004
