- Title
- Letter from D.[Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [26 October 1927]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel de Londres, Paris. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns an update from Paris including an offer from the dealer [Leopold Zborowski] to exhibit Grant's work. The letter also mentions he met [André] Derain in the Rue Bonparte and dined with 'Eed' [probably H.S. Ede] and Franzi [von Haas]. 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 8010/5/1424
