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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [11 June 1923]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/121
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant, Paris. She describes her return to the studios after a trip with Grant to Madrid, bumping into Matthew Smith in the corridor; a visit to Grant's exhibition at Percy Moore Turner's Independent Gallery and Simon Bussy's 'severe' review in 'The Nation and Athenaeum' (this exhibition included Tate's 'Landscape, Sussex' [1920; N05075]); her horror at Angelica acquiring 'Cockney'; and issues with servants, including Nellie Brittain's engagement. Also mentions Julian and Quentin Bell, Dorothy Bussy, Angus Davidson, Roger Fry, Grace Germany, Dora Harland, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Wyndham Lewis, Charles and Dora Sanger, Mrs Uppington, Rose Vildrac, 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 20078/1/44/121