How the art world fell in love with the Bloomsbury Group

The Telegraph

by Colin Gleadell

 

Bell, Grant and co have always intrigued – but a new Tate show and surging high-profile collectors signal a renewed era of Bloomsbury mania.

 

There was always something alluring about the Bloomsbury Group, a hornet’s nest of artists and writers who, in the early 20th century, congregated around Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes. They famously “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”.

 

November 3, 2026