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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [27 December 1928]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/160
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire, to Duncan Grant. She describes a visit to Lytton Strachey at Ham Spray House, where he shows Bell his new library; she criticises Dora Carrington's decoration elsewhere in the house, in particular a room where two Grant paintings ('Venus and Adonis' [c. 1919; T01514] and 'Still life with Gimond head' [c. 1923]) hang with John Banting's portrait of Alix Strachey. Lytton also discusses the will of Grant's recently deceased aunt Jane. Bell attributes her feeling of oppression at Cleeve House to the constant 'surveillance' of her mother-in-law, and describes a London Group meeting where Bernard Adenay manoeuvred his wife's paintings into the upcoming exhibition despite Bell's poor opinion of them. Also mentions Mr and Mrs Behrens, Clive, Cory, Julian and Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Heal's, Augustus John and Dorelia McNeill, Henry Lamb, Frances Partridge, Ralph (?Patridge), James, Marjorie and Pippa Strachey, Stephen Tomlin and Julia Strachey, 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 20078/1/44/160