London gallery says exhibition – featuring family paintings,
photographs and letters – will deal with public side of her life
A portrait of Virginia Woolf by her sister,
Vanessa Bell. Photograph: Estate of Vanessa Bell/NPG/PA
There will be portraits by her sister, her sister's gay husband and
her sister's spurned and heartbroken lover – a tangled web that can only mean Virginia Woolf and the
Bloomsbury group.
The National Portrait Gallery
on Thursday announced it is to stage the first exhibition exploring the life
and achievements of Woolf through portraiture.
It will feature more than 100 works, including paintings, photographs,
drawings and rare archive material such as the letter, being loaned by the
British Library, that Woolf wrote to her sister Vanessa Bell before her suicide
aged 59 in 1941.
The gallery said the exhibition was important. Its director, Sandy
Nairne, said he was delighted to stage a show dedicated to such a significant
figure. "Virginia Woolf was one of Britain's most important writers and
thinkers, who played a pivotal role at the heart of modernism in the early 20th
century."
A photograph of TS Eliot and Virginia Woolf taken
by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA
The show, to be staged later this year, will be curated by Woolf
biographer Frances Spalding. The gallery said the exhibition would explore
"Woolf as a novelist, intellectual, campaigner and public figure" as
well as her "developing feminist and political views".
There will be distinctive portraits by Bloomsbury contemporaries
including Bell, Bell's husband Duncan Grant – also a lover of Lytton Strachey
and John Maynard Keynes – and Bell's lover Roger Fry, the man who brought
French post-impressionism to London. The exhibition will also feature
portraits of people who were closest to her, letters to friends and extracts
from her diaries.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/03/national-portrait-gallery-virginia-woolf
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