Virginia Woolf

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): D.Grant / 1911

the artist (gift to Bell); Vanessa Bell, Sussex (until d. 1961); her daughter, Angelica Bell Garnett, England (1961–82; her gift in 1982 to N. Garnett); her daughter, Nerissa Garnett, England (1982–90; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1983–90; sold through Deborah Gage, London to MMA)

London. Wildenstein & Co. Ltd. "Duncan Grant and His World," November–December 12, 1964, no. 17 (as "Portrait of Virginia Woolf," lent by Mrs. David Garnett).

London. Tate Gallery. "The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant," November 4, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 12.

San Marino, Calif. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. "The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant," March 4–April 30, 2000, no. 12.

New Haven. Yale Center for British Art. "The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant," May 20–September 2, 2000, no. 12.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists' Artists," July 2–November 14, 2004, no catalogue.

Ithaca, N. Y. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," July 18–October 18, 2009, no. 61.

National Portrait Gallery, London. "Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision," July 10–October 26, 2014, unnumbered cat. (p. 64; as "Virginia Stephen").

"The World of Duncan Grant." Times (London) (November 6, 1964), p. 15, ill.

Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1990–1991." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 49 (Fall 1991), p. 62, ill. (color).

Richard Shone. The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1999, pp. 70–71, no. 12, ill. (color).

Christopher Reed in A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections. Ed. Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed. Exh. cat., Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Ithaca, N. Y., 2008, p. 70, no. 61, ill. p. 169 (color).

Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery, London. London, 2014, p. 62, ill. p. 64 (color), dates it ca. 1911; states that "most of it [was] painted on the spot while she had a long conversation with Vanessa".

Nancy Durrant. "Exhibition. Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision." Times (London) (July 10, 2014), p. 11.