Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell

Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell

[December 1926]

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell, ‘Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell’ [December 1926] — © The estate of Duncan Grant

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Created by: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Recipient: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Title: Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
Date: [December 1926]
Description: Addressed from London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns general news around Christmas time and mentions he painted the river that day.
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 8010/5/1391

Bloomsbury London Artists’ Association London Group Post-impressionism

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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)

Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1391

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