Lot 105: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION THOMAS CANTRELL DUGDALE 1880-1952 LA BELLA ANDALUZA

inscribed on the reverse: OTTOLINE MORRELL/ (THE PARIS MANTILLA)

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Lady Ottoline Morrell;
The Fine Art Society, November 1985 and January 1990;
Sotheby's, 26 November 1997, lot 25;
Private collection

EXHIBITED

Royal Academy, 1924, no. 227
CATALOGUE NOTE

The inscription on the reverse of La Bella Andaluza suggests that the picture was owned by Ottoline Morrell who has been called 'Bloomsbury's official hostess'. She had a house at 44 Bedford Square and was an early patron of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, as well as considerably increasing the clientele of Roger Fry's Bloomsbury Workshops. However, in comparison to many within the Bloomsbury set she stood out as an individual - being particularly wealthy and gregarious and also aristocratic. Her personal creativity lay in bringing people together (as she knew 'everyone') and acting as a catalyst for the talents of others.

199 by 127 cm., 78 1/4 by 50 in.