- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from D.[Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 18 June 1924
- 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 8010/5/1326
Description
Addressed from Berlin. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London, England. The letter concerns general news from Berlin mentioning he has spent the morning making watercolour copies of artworks in the Picture Gallery; Grant also describes artworks he has seen by Hans Holbein the Younger and Raphael. The letter also mentions Franzi [von Haas] is working on a portrait of 'his Rothschild Lady'. Includes two blank postcards of reproductions of paintings in Berlin galleries: 'Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels' by Rembrandt and 'Madonna and Child and St John' by Raphael with original envelope.
Archive context
- Correspondence and other papers relating to Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and others TGA 8010 (681)
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- Letters to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5 (681)
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- Letter from D.[Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1326