- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [20 July 1918]
- Description
- Addressed from 46 Gordon Square [London]. The letter concerns general news and mentions he was painting a still life and was interrupted by Francesco, the father of Pamela Bianco who offered Grant one of Bianco's drawings. The letter is illustrated with a very small sketch by Grant of a painting he did 'of Mary and the window'.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased at Sotheby's Sale, 21st -22nd July 1980 [Lot numbers 201,204,208,211,223,224,227,228,229,233,239,245,250,261,262,266]. The letters were gathered from different rooms at Charleston Farmhouse (including the attics), by Quentin Bell, son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. They were lodged in the Library of King's College, Cambridge and then transferred to Sotheby 's in 1980 for the auction.
- Reference
- TGA 8010/5/1161
