22nd Aug, 2024 11:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
  Lot 193
 

Woolf & Bell. Floral embroidery, [Juggs, n.d.]

[Woolf (Virgina) & Bell (Vanessa)]
Floral embroidery,
Inset under glass to the top of small pine side table with twisted legs, embroidery c. 350 x 270mm. faded, table c. 660mm tall., together with a pencil sketch of ‘Fearnie at Juggs in the pink bedroom with Virginia Woolf’s table beside the table bed drawn by Trekkie Parsons confirmed on verso by Virginia K. Lindley her god-daughter.
***Provenance: Three letters addressed to Lord Baker of Dorking from Virginia K.Lindley (god-daughter of Trekkie Parsons). She believes that the design of the embroidery is by Vanessa Bell and executed by Virginia Woolf. She also states that Dottie Owens of the National Trust says “The table with the canvas-work top is thought to have been in the Tavistock Square apartment of Woolf’s because Richard Sloane feels he had seen the trable in a photograph of their Tavistock Square apartment…..” letters dated 25.2.02

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