Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.July 1919]

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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
[c.1919]
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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title
Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date
[c.July 1919]
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, London, declining to attend John Maynard Keynes' party for those involved in the Ballets Russes production of 'The three-cornered hat', with designs by Pablo Picasso. She discusses her servants, and has been painting 'Still life with apples in a bowl' (c. 1919), based on 'Apples' (1917), painted at Wissett. Also mentions Angelica, Julian and Quentin Bell, Nellie Brittain, Roger Fry, Marie Moralt, Mr and Mrs Pitcher, Miss Richardson, and James Strachey.
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Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
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Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/102
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