Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.6 January 1933]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.6 January 1933]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She decides to rework her portrait of Dottie Wellesley's children, Gerald and Valerian, and discusses Bell's and Grant's relationship with new dealer Agnew's. Also mentions Mrs Curtis (?Mina Kirstein or Elizabeth Curtis), Roger Fry and his 'old gentleman', Grace Germany, and Lady Jones (Enid Bagnold).
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/185

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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 20078/1/44/185