- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [28 January 1922]
- Description
- Addressed from 33 Rue de Verneuil, Paris VI. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns a room Bell has been offered to take to paint in, a still life Grant has been working on, a description of his trip to the 'Independants' and his high regard for Roger [Fry's] work. Includes original envelope.
- 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 8010/5/1258
