Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell

Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell

[4 June 1937]

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Created by: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Recipient: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Title: Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
Date: [4 June 1937]
Description: Addressed from Villefranche [France]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The postcard provides an update of his time in France and mentions he is planning to see [Roderic O'Conor]. The postcard features a reproduction of a photograph of the Quay Amiral Courbet at Villefranche-sur-Mer.
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 8010/5/1750

Bloomsbury London Group Post-impressionism

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 D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1750

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