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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [6 March 1914]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/21
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Paris, who is recovering from flu while working for Jacques Copeau at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. She describes her current work - a pavement mosaic for Lady Jean Hamilton, reworking a stained glass design for the same patron that was rejected in favour of Roger Fry's; and a screen. Fry is pessimistic about the Omega Workshops' lack of success and the possible bankruptcy of its backer Hagop Kevorkian. She describes a visit with Clive to Annie and Leonard Raven-Hill, which concluded with their hostess using the chamber pot in Vanessa's presence, a scene she illustrates using her children's coloured chalks. She tells of an exchange of gifts with Simon Bussy, and Ottoline Morrel's attempt to heal their three-year rift, and proposes a picture-buying subscription club. Also mentions Paul Cézanne, Henry Lamb, Margery Snowden, and Lytton Strachey.
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 20078/1/44/21