- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [15 April 1931]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel de L'Elysee, Rue de Beaune, Paris. The letter concerns an update of his time in Paris and mentions meeting [André] Derain, [Igor] Stravinsky and 'Ausermet'. The letter also mentions Clive [Bell] and Mary [Hutchinson] and that Grant hopes to meet with [Leopold] Zborowski later that day.
- 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 8010/5/1542
