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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.June 1924]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London, to Duncan Grant, currently touring Belgium. She describes visits from Duncan's mother, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Gumbo Strachey; an emotional phone call from Helen Anrep; an unsatisfactory visit from Lydia Lopokova to buy hats designed by Bell; and a day painting with Quentin in her studio. Also mentions an unidentified French painter, Bartle and Ethel Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Henri Matisse, and Franzi von Haas.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/105
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/105