Paris 1906-7
At the beginning of 1906, with a letter of introduction from the French artist Simon Bussy and £100 from an aunt sympathetic to Grant's artistic interests, he went to Paris.
He rented an attic room in a cheap hotel and enrolled at Jacques Emile Blanche's new art school, La Palette.
| The extraordinary thing is I managed to live there a year on £100 - seems incredible now...
I went with some of these people from Westminster School, and we all shared the top floor of a very big, old hotel near the Palais Royale which was called l'Hotel de
l'Univers et de Portugal and it was incredibly cheap.
The rooms ran out of one another, there was no passage or anything. |
Duncan Grant, interview with Tate Archivist Sarah Whitfield, 1970 |
During his year in Paris Grant developed a number of important friendships.
He met the British artists Wyndham Lewis, Henry Lamb and Augustus John, and was visited by the newly married
Vanessa and Clive Bell, along with Vanessa's sister
Virginia, and brother Adrian. |
Hotel receipt
© Tate Archive, 2003 |
