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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [c.21 April 1925]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased at Sotheby's Sale, 21st -22nd July 1980 [Lot numbers 201,204,208,211,223,224,227,228,229,233,239,245,250,261,262,266]. The letters were gathered from different rooms at Charleston Farmhouse (including the attics), by Quentin Bell, son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. They were lodged in the Library of King's College, Cambridge and then transferred to Sotheby 's in 1980 for the auction.
- Reference
- TGA 8010/5/1354
Description
Addressed from 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns plans for a new design of 'the studio'. The letter also mentions a visit from Roger [Fry] and art critic [Carl] Einstein (confusing him as a brother of scientist Albert Einstein). The letter also mentions that Einstein offers to boost [Grant and Bell] in Berlin, and going to a music hall with Angus [Davidson], Cecil Taylor and Lytton [Strachey], later meeting [John] Maynard [Keynes] and Lydia [Lopokova]. Includes original envelope.
Archive context
- Correspondence and other papers relating to Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and others TGA 8010 (681)
- Letters to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5 (681)
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1354
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