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Charleston

Photo credit: Tony Tree, courtesy of The Charleston Trust

Open to the public

Museum or gallery in East Sussex

162 artworks

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Situated in the heart of the South Downs, Charleston was, from 1916, the home of Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and their unconventional household. Almost from the outset they began to decorate the house and to fill it with their own paintings and those of artists they knew and admired, including Picasso, Matisse, Sickert and Matthew Smith. After Duncan Grant's death in 1978 the house was restored. It opened to the public as a museum in 1986. The collection of over 150 oil paintings is displayed within the rooms of the house, very much as it was arranged during the artists' lifetimes.

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Firle, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 6LL England

info@charleston.org.uk

01323 811626

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http://www.charleston.org.uk

Artworks

  • Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), Painting at La Souco
    Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), Painting at La Souco Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
    Charleston
  • Standing Male Nude (Study of Tony Asserati)
    Standing Male Nude (Study of Tony Asserati) Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
    Charleston
  • Edward Le Bas (1904–1966), Decorating a Pot
    Edward Le Bas (1904–1966), Decorating a Pot Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
    Charleston
  • Music Room Panel
    Music Room Panel Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
    Charleston
  • The Cat, Opussyquinusque
    The Cat, Opussyquinusque Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
    Charleston
  • Young Woman in a Landscape
    Young Woman in a Landscape unknown artist
    Charleston
  • Still Life of Fruit
    Still Life of Fruit Henri Hayden (1883–1970)
    Charleston
  • 155 more

Artists

  • La Rochelle, France
    Jean Hippolyte Marchand (1883–1941)
  • The Dead Mole
    Frederick Etchells (1886–1973)
  • La Ciotat
    Othon Friesz (1879–1949)
  • Akua-Ba
    John Rattenbury Skeaping (1901–1980)
  • David Garnett
    Nerissa Stephen Garnett (1946–2004)
  • Bathing
    Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
  • Hope
    George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
  • Theatre Box (La Loge)
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
  • A London Street
    George Bergen (1903–1984)
  • The Garden
    Elizabeth Watson (1906–1955)

Stories

Venues in East Sussex

  •
    Battle Library
  • Bexhill Museum
  • Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
  • Charleston Lewes
  • Conquest Hospital
  • Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
  • East Sussex Record Office
  • Eastbourne Library
  • English Heritage, Battle Abbey
  • English Heritage, Pevensey Castle