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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Cambridge]
- Date
- [c.September–October 1928]
- Description
- Addressed from Cafe de l'Univers. The letter concerns an update of his time in Paris and mentions Angelica [Bell], Virginia [Woolf] and Franzi [von Haas]. The letter also discusses some of the artworks he has seen including 'some really lovely [Henri Matisses and] [Georges-Pierre] Seurats a great many [André] Derains'.
- 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 8010/5/1446
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)
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