Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[11 July 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: [11 July 1919]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She describes the visit of Marie Moralt, who is going to vaccinate Angelica and is embroidering a Grant design, and Roger Fry, with whom Bell paints. She discusses paintings she is going to make, Grant's male nude, and Roger's 'orchard piece' for which she sits. Also mentions Julian Bell, Miss Elwes, Tom Ford, and Pitcher.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/96

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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 20078/1/44/96