- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 20 June 1946
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The letter concerns general news and an update of his time in Cophenhagen. The letter also describes the French art he saw at [Glyptotek] including work by [Paul] Cézanne, [Alfred] Sisley and [Paul] Gauguin. 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 8010/5/1824
