Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.6 August 1935]

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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 August 1935]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Discusses beginning a still life, perhaps 'Flowers in a glass' (1935), and her dissatisfaction with the paintings she made in Rome. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, 'the Commendatore', Frank (whom she suspects of robbing her), Henri Matisse's 'Port de Marseilles' (1917; bequeathed by Roger Fry to Bell), Pierre-Auguste Renoir's bust 'Head of Coco' (c. 1907-1908), and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/201

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Archive context

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 20078/1/44/201