A diary belonging to acclaimed Scottish artist Duncan Grant has sold for 17 times its auction estimate. It sold for £13,750 against an estimate of £500-800, auctioneers at Gorringe’s said on Tuesday. The diary was discovered by Poppy Woodeson, daughter of art historian and biographer John Woodeson, who interviewed Grant during the course of his literary career. It contains Grant’s notes and updates on ongoing artworks, such as his 1912 painting titled Dancers, and features a pencil sketch of a standing nude figure. A photograph of the novelist EM Forster, which was taken by Ms Bell at Charleston farmhouse in Sussex in 1923, is also contained within the diary.
