Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.21 April 1923]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.21 April 1923]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Clive Bell is staying with her and the children; she is awaiting money sent by Grant for a forthcoming trip to France. She is painting a still life, and thanks Grant for retouching her portrait of Lydia Lopokova, on display at the London Group Spring exhibition, commenting unfavourably on the sitter's marriage to John Maynard Keynes. Also mentions Dorothy Bell, Nellie Brittain, Frank Dobson, and Stephen Tomlin.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/116

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Archive context

Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
- - Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
  - - Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/116