Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell

Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

Created by: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Recipient: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Title: Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]
Date: [c.February 1931]
Description: Addressed from Hotel de L'Elysee, Rue de Beaune Paris. The letter concerns general news and discusses a trip to an opera with 'Mary' where he met [André] Derain and Marie Beerbohm.
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 8010/5/1539

London Group Post-Impressionism Fauvism Bloomsbury Group