this is duncan grant's mum, ethel. the bloomsbury group but they are continually surprising us. what we have here are 422 works on paper by duncan grant. this collection was given by duncan grant to a friend. for a long time everybody thought it had been destroyed. because of its homosexual nature and because they were illegal images it was thought that his friends' family had destroyed them on his death. but luckily they were saved and they were given to another friend and another friend and another friend and eventually they came down to the person who has given them to charleston. why did you decide to give them to charleston? i've been wondering who i might pass them on to and i thought this could go on for centuries if we don't kind of stop it. did you ever take them out from under the bed and show them to people? occasionally, yes. some friends would come round for dinner and the subject would go vaguely towards bloomsbury and i would say, well i don't know if you know about this but i've got all these erotic dra

this is duncan grant's mum, ethel.end and another friend and eventually they came down to the person who has given them to charleston. why did you decide to give them to charleston? i've been wondering who i might pass them on to and i thought this could go on for centuries if we don't kind of stop it. did you ever take them out from under the bed and show them to people? occasionally, yes. some friends would come round for dinner and the subject would go vaguely towards bloomsbury and i would say, well i don't know if you know about this but i've got all these erotic drawings and would you like to see them. and so i would haul them out and show them a few. there were hundreds so one got the gist quite quickly. they need to come out of the closet now and be considered and looked at and thought about. i mean, they are a serious collection. absolutely beautiful. i think it's a really significant discovery. a lot of talk about bloomsbury and its relationships and its fluid relationships and the different amount of partner