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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [5 February 1930]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/162
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant. She discusses her depression and her attempts to work - to make a curtain and a large painting of three female nudes, a sketch of which is included in the letter. The painting will rework a nude currently hanging at her London Artists' Association exhibition in New Bond Street, Mayfair, and will use her models Drury and Brinkworth. She reports a commission to paint Dottie Wellesley's children, a visit from Raymond Mortimer, and a request from the editor of British 'Vogue' to discuss Bell's and Grant's decorations. Also mentions Grace Germany.
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 20078/1/44/162