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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.31 July 1935]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Grant, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant, Rome, written in two sessions, 31 July and 1 August. She discusses visiting 'Cézanne' at the Lefevre Gallery; the sale of five Grant works by Donachie at an 'English show', including a Paris subject, perhaps 'La Place de Furstenberg' (1935); and Grant's 'Queen Mary' decorations. Also mentions Julian Bell, Jane and Kenneth Clark, Henry Lamb, Ernest Leach, Lily, Marco Polo the cat, James and Marguerite McBey, P&O, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Flossie Selwood, and Wallace.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/198
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/198
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