Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Postcard from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[2 May 1912]

© The estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy of Henrietta Garnett

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Postcard from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [2 May 1912]
Description: Postcard from Vanessa Bell, Paris, to Duncan Grant, 38 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London. Bell is in Europe with Roger Fry. She describes the hanging of an exhibition at the Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, organised by Fry with Charles Vildrac, where Grant's 'Dancers (second version)' (1912) was complimented; they later have dinner with Vildrac's family. Also mentions the Camden Town Group, Henri Lucien Doucet, and Rose Duhamel. The postcard is illustrated by an image of Stockalper Palace, Brigue, Valais, Switzerland.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/7

Post-Impressionism Camden Town Group Bloomsbury Group

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)
  - - Postcard from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/7