Charleston, the home and studio where the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant challenged convention to forge new models of creativity and ways of living, is launching a search for works by the Bloomsbury group held in private hands.
The radical group of artists and intellectuals, which also included the writers Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and EM Forster and the economist John Maynard Keynes, worked and socialised at the 16th-century farmhouse in East Sussex – now a museum – as well as Bell’s London home.
