- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [4 April 1930]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns a brief update ahead of his arrival the following day. The postcard features a reproduction of Gustave Courbet's 'Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine' (1857) from the Palais des Beaux Arts de la ville de Paris.
- 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 8010/5/1490
