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28 APRIL 2023 - 18 MAY 2023
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76. Quentin Bell (1910-1996)

Plate with Fish

Glazed earthenware with incised decoration
33 cm diametre 
Marked Fulham Pottery 
 
Kindly donated by Sally Hunter Fine Art, who worked and sold the artists work for many years

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£700 - 1,000

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Painter, sculptor, potter, writer and teacher, Bell grew up at the centre of the Bloomsbury set. He was the son of the painter and interior designer Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) and the art critic and writer Clive Bell. He was a nephew of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). 

He went to Leighton School and with some help from Roger Fry studied painting in England and Paris. In World War II Bell was a member of the Political Warfare Executive. Among his teaching positions were Slade professor of fine art, Oxford University, 1964–5, Ferens professor of fine art, Hull University, 1965–6, and professor of history and theory of art, Sussex University, 1967–75, then being made emeritus professor. His books included Ruskin, 1963; Bloomsbury, 1968; Virginia Woolf, a Biography, 1972; a novel, The Brandon Papers, 1985; and his memoirs, Elders and Betters, 1995. Had a series of solo shows from 1935, with a Crafts Council-funded retrospective tour from 1999.

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