Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[19 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: [19 April 1926]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, originally enclosing a telegram for Grant from Karin Stephen. Both are having problems with paintings - Bell with a portrait of Helen Anrep, Grant with a Pierrot subject. Also mentions Angus Davidson, Roger Fry, Edward Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/142

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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 20078/1/44/142