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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Bloomsbury Caf?, London Oil on panel, 30.5 x 40.5 (12 x 16'') Signed, signed again and inscribed with title & dated 1931 verso Exhibited: ''Harry Kernoff Exhibition'' December 1934, Daniel Egan's Gallery, Cat. No. 46. Provenance: A Private Collection, Dublin Kernoff was a regular visitor to London during the twenties and thirties. He painted numerous works on these visits, but few as interesting and historically rich as this, the stomping ground of the legendary Bloomsbury Group. Members of the tight-knit group included the critic Clive Bell, his artist wife Vanessa, the novelist Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and also the economist John Maynard-Keynes. Its members were committed to working and living apart from the generally accepted late Victorian and early Edwardian taboos on religious, artistic and sexual matters. The bearded white-haired gentleman is likely to be the writer George Bernard Shaw, joining either members or followers of the Bloomsbury Group for an engaging monologue. Shaw himself was already an accredited novelist and playwright by the time the group had gathered in 1904, and he went on to receive many accolades, notably the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He attributed his success to his healthy lifestyle and diet and to the fact he never drank or smoked Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Bloomsbury Caf?, London Oil on panel, 30.5 x 40.5 (12 x 16'') Signed, signed again and inscribed with title & dated 1931 verso Exhibited: ''Harry Kernoff Exhibition'' December 1934, Daniel Egan's Gallery, Cat. No. 46. Provenance: A Private Collection, Dublin Kernoff was a regular visitor to London during the twenties and thirties. He painted numerous works on these visits, but few as interesting and historically rich as this, the stomping ground of the legendary Bloomsbury Group. Members of the tight-knit group included the critic Clive Bell, his artist wife Vanessa, the novelist Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and also the economist John Maynard-Keynes. Its members were committed to working and living apart from the generally accepted late Victorian and early Edwardian taboos on religious, artistic and sexual matters. The bearded white-haired gentleman is likely to be the writer George Bernard Shaw, joining either members or followers of the Bloomsbury Group for an engaging monologue. Shaw himself was already an accredited novelist and playwright by the time the group had gathered in 1904, and he went on to receive many accolades, notably the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He attributed his success to his healthy lifestyle and diet and to the fact he never drank or smoked