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  • There are -- there's a famous painting of him as a young man by Duncan Grant, which is on the cover of the first volume, which is -- this is when they were having their affair, and they were staying in an -- on an island off the coast of Scotland, and Keynes was writing his book.

    John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 2002

  • The impact of Picasso's innovation is explored through art as diverse as Henry Moore's monumental modernism, Francis Bacon's twisted paintings of existential horror, and David Hockney's pop-sharp vision, as well as work by Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland.

    This week's new exhibitions 2012

  • Overnight, Picasso became notorious—except to the Bloomsbury painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, whose work almost immediately reflected his influence; and to Bloomsbury groupies Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes and Harry Norton, who bought his work.

    A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

  • The couple's lawyer, Duncan Grant, said: What right-minded person would say they have to be split up now, when they clearly need to be supporting each other?

    Grieving couple's plea: 'Don't let visa rules split us up' 2011

  • The letter was written by Horace de Vere Cole, who described how he and five friends, including the novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Duncan Grant, duped an admiral and the crew of the battleship HMS Dreadnought, flagship of the home fleet.

    How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy 2012

  • Visitors to Chatsworth, and to the Duke's Irish home, Lismore Castle, include Evelyn Waugh, Hubert de Givenchy and Duncan Grant, though first up is Lucian Freud, enlisted to paint cyclamen on the wall of a Chatsworth bathroom, a task he never completes (he would greet Debo every morning with the words: "I've had a wonderful night taking out everything I did yesterday").

    Wait for Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister, by Deborah Devonshire 2010

  • Photographs by Alexia S Above the drinks table is a painting by Scottish artist Duncan Grant in a 17th-century frame.

    The City Squire 2010

  • And to show that the archive also collects non-paper objects: Walter Sickert 's strangely stylish linen, cream-colored painting overalls, and a coiled lock of golden hair from Eileen Mayo, the model and muse of the mostly gay Duncan Grant.

    Celebrating 40 Years of Archiving British Art Paul Levy 2010

  • We went that sunny day to the old Berwick Church, the intention being that I might describe the murals painted by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.

    Once upon a life: Andrew O'Hagan Andrew O 2010

  • It begins, in all places, at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, where a puppy waxes lyrical about life with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, from whom he absorbs aesthetic philosophy, literary history and good taste.

    The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010

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