Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[24 December 1928]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [24 December 1928]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire, to Duncan Grant. She and Angelica are spending Christmas with Clive's family. Bell relates a dinner in London with Julian and John Tresidder Sheppard, and advises Grant to change the title of a painting to 'The red sofa' (perhaps his 1917 portrait of Bell). Also mentions Cory and Hannah Bell, Clinker the dog, Roger Fry, Ovens the Bells' chauffeur, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/158

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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 20078/1/44/158