Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[16 April 1926]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [16 April 1926]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, London. She discusses each other's health, and proposes to come to London to shop and see Matthew Smith's exhibition (with Michael Servier) at the Mayor Gallery. She is painting her portrait of Helen Anrep despite Clive's continued presence in the studio making her 'uneasy'; the children make toffee. Also mentions Angus Davidson, Ethel Grant, and John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/141

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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 20078/1/44/141