- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 12 June 1946
- Description
- Addressed from Grand Hotel, Stockholm. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The letter provides an update of his time in Stockholm with his aunt Daisy [and mother]. The letter discusses the art he has seen in Stockholm including work by Rembrandt, [Peter Paul] Rubens and [Jean-Baptiste-Siméon] Chardin. 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 8010/5/1818
