- Title
- Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [16 October 1927]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from Cassis. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, London. The postcard concerns news that he has seen 'the new house' [La Bergere, at Cassis] and 'it will be finished in 3 weeks'. The postcard features a reproduction of a photograph of Port Pin in the bay of Cassis.
- 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 8010/5/1414