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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Postcard from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [3 January 1927]
- Description
- Addressed from 37 Gordon Square, London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns Grant's communication with 'Mayor' about including Roger [Fry's?] work in an unidentified exhibition [possibly at the Lefevre Gallery in London].
- 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 8010/5/1394
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)
- Postcard from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1394
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