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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.27 April 1923]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/117
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She discusses her portrait of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes' purchase of a Matthew Smith painting at the London Group Spring exhibition; the wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; her difficulties in painting a still life; their forthcoming trip to France; and the sale of their houses in Fitzroy Square, proposing one for the gallery mooted by Roger Fry and Frank Hindley Smith. Also mentions Clive Bell, Elizabeth Courtauld, Queen Mary, Osbert Sitwell, Mr Stacey, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/117