Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[27 May 1919]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [27 May 1919]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, describing her visit to the ballet, meeting old friends, as well Pablo Picasso and André Derain. Derain was staying in her flat in Regent Square. Also mentions Mrs Brereton ('La B.'), Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, Harry Norton, Osbert Sitwell, Oliver, Ray and Pippa Strachey, Igor Stravinsky, and Teddy Wolfe.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/93

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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 20078/1/44/93