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Vanessa Bell, The Memoir Club, c.1943, oil on canvas, 60.8 x 81.6 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London. Source
Three portraits can be seen in the background of this particular meeting of Bloomsbury Group members and associates. They represent Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, figures who had once been prominent members of the group before their deaths.
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