A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November
Mrs Dalloway’s Party, a rediscovered 1920 painting by Vanessa Bell, may have inspired her sister Virginia Woolf to write her famous novel Mrs Dalloway.Mrs Dalloway’s Party, a rediscovered 1920 painting by Vanessa Bell, may have inspired her sister Virginia Woolf to write her famous novel Mrs Dalloway.
Now an enigmatic painting, one that had gone missing for 60 years and which is intimately linked to the book, has come to light. The picture, painted by Woolf’s sister, the artist, and is now to go on public display for the first time in almost 100 years. It depicts the glamorous guests at a party much like the occasion at the centre of Woolf’s novel..
Unlike most of Bell’s work, it is neither a still life nor a portrait. Some fans of the novel, which is set on a single June day in 1923 in Mayfair, have recently speculated about the role of the painting in sparking Woolf’s imagination, but it has not been possible to see it. Art experts have also wondered why Bell’s picture disappeared soon after it was given to the author, only to reappear briefly in 1985
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