- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 13 June [1946]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from Stockholm. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The postcard concerns a brief critique of ['The Morning Toilet']. The postcard features a reproduction of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's 'The Morning Toilet' in the National Museum, Stockholm.
- 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 8010/5/1819
