This rare glimpse inside the circle of artists and writers which dominated English cultural life in the early twentieth century profiles the lives and careers of the two painters in the group, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and Duncan Grant (1885-1978). It examines their work both within the context of Bloomsbury and from the wider perspective of modern British art, and discusses their interactions with the personalities of their time, from Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey to Picasso, Derain and Sickert.