Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Martin Ferguson

Titel

A complete strip-off: A Bloomsbury threesome in the nude at Studland

Ist Teil von

• The British art journal, 2019-10, Vol.20 (2), p.72-77

Ort / Verlag

London: British Art Journal

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From 1 to 29 Sep 1911 Vanessa and Clive Bell and their children stayed in Studland on the coast of Dorset. They had stayed there three times before--in Sep 1909, March-April 1910, and Sep-Oct 1910. On all four occasions Virginia Stephen too stayed in Studland, although only on the second of them, when her mental state was shaky and the Bells took her away for a break, did she stay in the same house. Here, Smith described how Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry had fallen in love during a visit to Turkey with Clive Bell and Harry Norton in the spring of 1911. On their return to England, Vanessa and Roger saw one another as often as they could, but not as often as they wished. The existence of photography by Roger and photographs taken at Studland of Roger and Vanesse in the nude is discussed.