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190574262s. l.: S. n. 1905. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1905 15 x 19 cm trois pages sur une double feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count three pages 27 lines written in black ink to his friends the Lapauzes that he is delighted to see them again soon even if they impose upon him the presence of a certain Sarah who is not among the people the poet seems to appreciate: ""Dear friends I will not do you the affront of not telling you that I would have preferred just the two of you alone"" words underlined but as the beautiful verse says: You do what you do / What you do is right."" For this meeting arranged at the Petit Palais of which Henry Lapauze becomes curator in 1905 after having been assistant director for the four preceding years Robert de Montesquiou ""a late riser who has the cowardice - or if you prefer the wisdom to choose the afternoon"" timidly expresses in a surge of wounded pride and revenge that he already regrets the possibility of his absence: "".only a throat irritation carelessly treated and unexpectedly could keep me away at the last moment. But I don't want to believe it. Let us arrange ourselves around Sarah!"" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown
195662720s. l. 1956. Fine. s. l. 2 juin 1956 21 x 27.10 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Roland Barthes written in blue ink. Date at the top of the letter and signature at the bottom of the letter. Folds caused by mailing.Roland Barthes sends this letter to his correspondent to warn him that he has decided to give ""three pages of his intervention"" to Hollerer founder of the German magazine Akzente and that following his refusal of an article addressed to the addressee he afraid that it will upset him. He explains in the letter saying that these pages are not really developed but also that it ""dreads the German audience less"". 1956 is the year of the writing of the Mythologies of Barthes which appear at Seuil in 1957. unknown
191073656s. l. 1910. Fine. s. l. s. d. 20.70 x 10.60 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené known as Baron fils. 7 lines in blue ink on ""Basseau Strong"" watermarked paper. ""O Grand Baron. Je vous dédie en témoignage de reconnaissance cette bouffonnerie dont vous avez incarné le rôle principal avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"". ""O Great Baron. I dedicate to you in token of gratitude this buffoonery in which you embodied the leading role with that incomparable naturalness which has often been mistaken for talent and which is nothing but comic genius"" The actor Baron fils embodied numerous roles in Sacha Guitry's plays notably La Prise de Berg-op-Zoom La Pèlerine écossaise L'Illusionniste Deburau Le Mari la Femme et l'Amant Nono and Faisons un rêve. unknown
19633972New York: Original Letter 1963. Original Letter. Near Fine. 5 3/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. Typed Signed Letter TLS from Actress Vivien Leigh of Gone with the Wind fame. On Leigh's personal "Broadway Theatre New York" stationery. Signed in ink by Vivien Leigh. In part: "Thank you. for sending me the resume of your thesis on the death of Falstaff. With every good wish. Yours sincerely Vivien Leigh."Unobtrusive horizontal fold. <br /> <br /> Vivian Leigh 1913-1967 was a two-time Academy Award Winner. The first was for her starring role as "Southern Belle" Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and the second was for her Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Her only Tony Award was won in 1963 for Best Actress in a Musical in the Broadway version of "Tovarich" the year of this letter.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Ralph Edward Schroeder's Thesis for his M.A. at San Diego State College was filed in 1964 under the title "The Holy Dying of Falstaff and its Implications." OCLC locates only one copy at San Diego State. Original Letter unknown
195662716s. l. 1956. Fine. s. l. 11 mai 1956 21 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed Roland Barthes written in black ink. Date at the top of the letter and signature at the bottom of the letter. Folds caused by mailing. One erasure and two additions from the author's hand.Roland Barthes sends this letter to warn his addressee that he will not send him the article he had announced on realism because what he wrote does not satisfy him: ""I can not decide to give you this text on realism and I just ask you to give it up: it does not satisfy me enough "" . He then proposes a theme of reflection for the journal of his correspondent which would be the study of the stakes of the debates between intellectuals: ""its limits its hopes its failures its action what one expects etc."" 1956 is the year of the writing of the Mythologies of Barthes which appear at Seuil in 1957. unknown
192812268Drei eh. Briefe u. ein masch. Brief, alle mit eh. U. Ägina, Athen u. Berlin, 8. IX. 1924 - 22.II. 1928. 8°. u. 4°. Zus. 11 SS.- Knickfalten, leicht gebräunt.- Beiliegend 2 eh. Kuverts (Briefmarken ausgeschnitten).
194776435Paris 1947. Fine. Paris 16 février 1947 20.80 x 27 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Unpublished autograph letter signed by André Breton addressed to Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange written in black ink on a sheet with letterhead of the International Surrealist Exhibition 1947. Envelope included. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. Interesting letter evoking the review Troisième Convoi founded by Jean Maquet and Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange written shortly before the second surrealist exhibition at the Maeght gallery: ""Dites-moi : IIIe Convoi ne nous a tout de même pas habitués à cette allure ! "" ""Tell me: IIIe Convoi has not exactly accustomed us to this pace!"". The review whose title was inspired by Vases communicants ""Nous voyageurs du second convoi."" ""We travelers of the second convoy"" had five issues between 1945 and 1951. We have found no trace of Breton's collaboration with this review but the letter we offer demonstrates that it may have been discussed: ""Et vous savez que je reste en assez mauvaise condition avec cette séquelle de sinusite. . Il me faudrait aussi être un peu plus éclairé peut-être sur l'axe de votre quatrième numéro pour ne pas partir à côté ou faire malgré moi trop divergent. Ne pensez-vous pas "" ""And you know that I remain in rather poor condition with this sequel of sinusitis. . I would also need to be perhaps a little more enlightened about the direction of your fourth issue so as not to go off track or despite myself be too divergent. Don't you think"" unknown
195476427Paris 1954. Fine. Paris janvier 1954 29.10 x 18.20 cm une carte pliée et une enveloppe Wedding announcement of Boris Vian and Ursula Kübler. On the left panel is mounted a photograph of Vian and his wife in their famous 1911 Brasier Torpedo. Included is the envelope written in Boris Vian's hand in purple ink. Manuscript calculations in green ink on verso. Passionate about mechanics and driving Boris Vian owned numerous car models; his favorite was undoubtedly his 1911 Brasier Torpedo a former Marne taxi which he acquired in spring 1950. The marriage finally took place on February 8 1954 at the town hall of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. unknown
192375257Marseille 1923. Fine. Marseille s. d. novembre 1923 13.70 x 18.70 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille. A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter. Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: ""I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday and we'll take care of this matter - which I still haven't understood anything about."" ""In November 1923 she dealt with . a subject she knew by heart Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had two years earlier initiated the future economist and political scientist into love in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe published in that same year 1923."" Rémi Duchêne L'Embarcadère des lettres unknown
1931741241931. Fine. 17 juin 1931 12.20 x 16.90 cm 1 page sur 1 feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Edouard Vuillard addressed to the architect and designer Bolette Natanson written in blue ink on a paper framed in black : ""My dear Bolette Sorry to have kept you waiting on my reply I kept hoping to have the time to come see you. It is not me who adjusts the frame so I find it fair to pay this price for it"". A friend of the painter Edouard Vuillard Bolette Natanson framed several of his works. Bonnard was a longtime friend of the Natansons Thadée and Reine whom he continued to see throughout his life in Normandy or in Paris. Their niece Bolette Natanson daughter of Alexandre whom Bonnard knew as a child became a well-known decorator. She worked with the architect and decorator Jean-Charles Moreux and recommended Bonnard in 1927 for a series of paintings set to adorn a private mansion that Moreux was decorating including the Vue du Cannet now at the Musée Bonnard le Cannet France. unknown
195575873Paris 1955. Fine. Paris s. d. 17 décembre 1955 20.80 x 26.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed to Michael Smithies. One page written in blue ballpoint pen. Two transverse folds inherent to the mailing. Interesting letter filled with disappointment: ""Here is one of my dreams: to speak at Oxford and once again fate opposes it. I have just been very ill."" One easily understands Cocteau's state of health following the sentence very confused: ""on me me chambre la montagne vers ces dates"". ""Think of the sentence I underline and let us organize something for the near future."" The poet's dream would be fulfilled the following year; promoted to the rank of doctor of letters honoris causa by Oxford University on June 12 1956 he would deliver the Discours d'Oxford on the 14th. unknown
1955844221955. Fine. s. d. circa 1955 13.50 x 21 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Jean Giono addressed to Roger Nimier 11 lines in black ink in which he justifies his delay in responding to a request for an article submitted to him by the author of Hussard Bleu. Trace of fold inherent to envelope insertion. ""Pour Mars ça me paraît difficile. Au surplus je n'ai pas le texte et j'ai oublié mes anciennes lectures."" ""For March that seems difficult to me. Moreover I don't have the text and I have forgotten my previous readings"" but Jean Giono does not give up on all production: "". je vais m'efforcer de faire quelque chose pour Arts."" "". I will endeavor to do something for Arts."" He also rejoices at the publication of a new work by Antoine Blondin great friend of Roger Nimier probably the bookstore release of L'humeur vagabonde in 1955 or Un singe en hiver in 1959 with a thunderous: ""Enfin Blondin ! "" ""Finally Blondin!"" unknown
196587859s. l.: S. n. 1965. Fine. S. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1965 10 x 7.50 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph card from Maurice Blanchot to his niece Annick 5 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included. ""Pour Annick on the envelope ce livre ne t'apportera rien de consolant mais du moins reçois-le comme le témoignage de mon affection qui ne te manquera pas aussi longtemps que vivre sera possible - et peut-être au-delà par le souvenir."" For Annick this book will bring you nothing consoling but at least receive it as testimony of my affection which will not fail you as long as living remains possible - and perhaps beyond that through memory. S. n. unknown
191174273s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 9 Juin 1911 13.50 x 21 cm quatre pages sur deux feuilles Remarkable autograph letter dated and signed by the dandy count four pages on two large sheets 16 lines written in black ink to his ""dear friend"" Henri Lapauze denouncing his failure to keep his word and provoking the poet's epistolary ire. Henry Lapauze was to celebrate Robert de Montesquiou in a tribute book regarding the latter and to his great chagrin he forgot him thus stinging his impulsive pride: "". it is not to recriminate even less to complain - both incompatible with pride - but to record what compensates for misunderstandings."" and additional affront to the dandy-poet's pride : "". you spoke. only of Lavedan !"" while double and supreme betrayal Robert de Montesquiou honored his promise by dedicating his latest work to him: ""At the very moment when I was inscribing for you the dedication promised by me I received the fascicle where the comments promised by you were to be expressed for the book that pays tribute to me."" The poet and writer Robert de Montesquiou would be very grateful to him: "". the poet and friend who both in one thank you affectionately in advance."" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown
199120338-120Northridge California: Lord John Press 1991. No. 135 OF 150 DELUXE COPIES and 400 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. 195 x 265 mm. 7 3/4 x 10 3/4". xi 1 pp. 1 leaf blank 1-16 15a 16a 17-38 pp. 3 leaves 41-75 1 pp. 2 leaves. <br/> Publisher's navy quarter morocco over gray buckram cover titled in blue spine lettered in gilt. In a slightly worn navy buckram slipcase. With 40 photographs of the authors whose signatures appear plus an additional 55 photos of signatures from other authors and public figures. SIGNED BY 41 AUTHORS. Essentially as new.<br/> <br/> An autograph collector's delight this unusual fine press production is perhaps of importance mainly as the vehicle for the first printing of an essay by Stephen King on autograph collecting signed by King of course. In addition the book features the signatures of 41 important figures including alphabetically John Barth Ray Bradbury Harry Crews Gerald R. Ford Jim Harrison Tony Hillerman Ursula LeGuin Elmore Leonard Norman Mailer Joyce Carol Oates Reynolds Price Anne Tyler John Updike and Eudora Welty. The Lord John Press was founded in 1978 by Herbert Yellin 1935-2014 with the purpose of publishing modern authors in signed limited editions. Yellin had long been a collector of books and autographs before he became a publisher and he kept his collector's sensibility as a publisher always concerned with excellent printing and of course with signatures. Lord John Press unknown
1991ST20338-120Northridge California: Lord John Press 1991. No. 135 OF 150 DELUXE COPIES and 400 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. 195 x 265 mm. 7 3/4 x 10 3/4". xi 1 pp. 1 leaf blank 1-16 15a 16a 17-38 pp. 3 leaves 41-75 1 pp. 2 leaves. <br/> Publisher's navy quarter morocco over gray buckram cover titled in blue spine lettered in gilt. In a slightly worn navy buckram slipcase. With 40 photographs of the authors whose signatures appear plus an additional 55 photos of signatures from other authors and public figures. SIGNED BY 41 AUTHORS. Essentially as new.<br/> <br/> An autograph collector's delight this unusual fine press production is perhaps of importance mainly as the vehicle for the first printing of an essay by Stephen King on autograph collecting signed by King of course. In addition the book features the signatures of 41 important figures including alphabetically John Barth Ray Bradbury Harry Crews Gerald R. Ford Jim Harrison Tony Hillerman Ursula LeGuin Elmore Leonard Norman Mailer Joyce Carol Oates Reynolds Price Anne Tyler John Updike and Eudora Welty. The Lord John Press was founded in 1978 by Herbert Yellin 1935-2014 with the purpose of publishing modern authors in signed limited editions. Yellin had long been a collector of books and autographs before he became a publisher and he kept his collector's sensibility as a publisher always concerned with excellent printing and of course with signatures. Lord John Press unknown
1951204949CB1951. DIN A 4 (Gelocht, gefaltet, papierbed. gebräunt).
1911761441911. Fine. 29 juin 1911 13.50 x 21 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet double Signed autograph manuscript by Alain bearing the title ""Propos d'un Normand"" and the mention ""sans retard"" in the upper left of the first leaf two pages written in black ink on a double sheet. This text was published in the Propos d'un Normand de 1911. Interesting manuscript written following the appointment of Adolphe Messimy to the post of Minister of War: ""Ce général ministre avait en somme très noblement répondu. Il faudra enfin décider un jour ou l'autre sans aucun mystère que la Défense Nationale est républicaine."" ""This general minister had in sum responded very nobly. We must finally decide one day or another without any mystery that National Defense is republican."" Indeed the newly elected minister sought to redefine relations between political power and military authorities. Alain reproaches the military world for its opacity ""Comment la France sera-t-elle défendue Nous n'en savons rien. . chez nous même les députés ne s'en font aucune idée."" ""How will France be defended We know nothing about it. . even our deputies have no idea."" before proposing solutions: ""Donc il faudrait qu'il soit bien entendu que chaque chef garde une large initiative dans l'exécution d'un programme déterminé. Et ce programme ne dépend pas seulement de la science militaire ; c'est aux ministres avec le conseil des grands chefs qu'il appartient de le déterminer."" ""Therefore it should be well understood that each leader retains broad initiative in executing a determined program. And this program does not depend solely on military science; it is up to ministers with the counsel of senior leaders to determine it."" From 1903 Alain published weekly chronicles titled ""Propos"" in La Dépêche de Rouen et de Normandie. More than 3000 of these ""Propos"" concise articles inspired by daily current events would appear from February 1906 to September 1914. unknown
191183347s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 16 mai 1911 31 x 19.50 cm 3 feuilles Autograph letter signed by the dandy count 56 lines written in black ink on three sheets addressed to his friend and bibliographer the critic Henri Lapauze notably mentioning a work by Ingres in his possession also thanking his correspondent for his always lucid and benevolent critiques regarding him. ""16 mai 911 Cher ami merci pour le magnifique volume au sujet duquel je me félicite sans trop insister. que votre catégorique réponse de l'autre jour sur la non-participation des non-contemporains à votre index me permette de n'avoir pas à vous adresser le beau reproche que j'avais préparé non sur ""Phidias absent"" puisqu'il y est. mais sur moi-même oublié. Quand donc vous en serez à l'index en vie je suis bien sûr que dans votre équité non moins que dans votre estime méritée vous croirez justement devoir faire une part à l'homme qui a publié il y a quinze années cet essai qu'il juge mui-même aujourd'hui insuffisamment respectueux à l'heure où les jeunes gens ont trouvé ce titre pour Ingres ""un maître sans génie"". Tout de même je ne doute pas que sous l'enveloppe insuffisamment libérée du style n'oubliez pas qu'il y a quinze ans la documentation ne vous semble assez forte et le jugement assez expressif pour un temps où vous ne nous aviez pas facilité la chose avec tant de révélations qui sont votre gloire. Je le répète mon cher Lapauze le mot ne me semble pas trop fort pour l'admirable monument élevé par vous au génie des génies dans votre ouvrage si noblement animé mieux que de la ferveur d'un compatriote d'un concitoyen disons le si joli titre disons d'un ""pays"". Votre lecteur et ami Robert de Montesquiou. et voici que Jacques Blanche vient de s'y mettre - quinze ans trop tard ! Quel dommage qu'il ne m'ait pas consulté sur l'institut. Je l'aurais trouvé car mon génie à moi il ne faut pas le défier. Dominique jugé par Jacquot. "" ""16 May 911 Dear friend thank you for the magnificent volume about which I congratulate myself without insisting too much. that your categorical response the other day on the non-participation of non-contemporaries in your index allows me not to have to address to you the fine reproach I had prepared not about 'Phidias absent' since he is there. but about myself forgotten. When therefore you get to the index of the living I am quite sure that in your equity no less than in your deserved esteem you will believe justly that you should make a place for the man who published fifteen years ago this essay which he himself judges today insufficiently respectful at a time when young people have found this title for Ingres 'a master without genius'. All the same I do not doubt that under the insufficiently liberated envelope of style don't forget that it was fifteen years ago the documentation will seem strong enough to you and the judgment expressive enough for a time when you had not made things easy for us with so many revelations which are your glory. I repeat my dear Lapauze the word does not seem too strong to me for the admirable monument erected by you to the genius of geniuses in your work so nobly animated better than with the fervor of a compatriot of a fellow citizen let us say the lovely title let us say of a 'countryman'. Your reader and friend Robert de Montesquiou. and here Jacques Blanche has just started on it - fifteen years too late! What a pity he didn't consult me about the institute. I would have found it for my genius one must not defy it. Dominique judged by Jacquot."" Fold marks inherent to postal delivery. S. n. unknown
195676379Saint-Cirq-Lapopie 1956. Fine. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie 9 octobre 1956 13.50 x 18 cm 1 page sur un double feuillet et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by André Breton addressed to Jean Schuster; one page written in black ink on a double sheet of white paper. Envelope included. The writing of this letter coincides with the publication date of the very first issue of the journal Le Surréalisme même: ""At last! Considering the closed object let us say that there is nothing left but to await events."" Breton then at his house in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie plans to return to Paris for this occasion: ""This was necessary - and the great cold of the morning - to bring us back to Paris: we will be there Friday and I will stop by the Musset in the evening."" Jean Schuster 1929-1995 joined the Surrealist group in 1947. Close to Benjamin Péret and André Breton he would become the latter's literary executor. unknown
193964406Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939. Fine. Paris et Richelieu Paris 1939-1940 21 x 27 cm en feuillets Set of 6 autograph letters signed by André Rolland de Renéville 21 pages in black and blue ink. The letters are dated with one exception between June 28 1939 and May 27 1940 and include various addresses at the head of the pages. Folds inherent in envelopes. unknown
193864165Paris: Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère 1938. Fine. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère Paris s. d. circa 1938 20.50 x 27.50 cm broché et en feuilles Autograph manuscripts and typescripts by André-Ferdinand Hérold for the libretto of Zadig musical comedy premiered on June 24 1938 at the Opéra-Comique with music by Jean Dupérier. Several hundred typewritten and manuscript pages numerous corrections in ink and pencil in the librettist's hand stamp of the general agency for dramatic and literary copies H. Compère on the front cover and first endpaper of the paperbound copy. The paperbound copy contains a complete version of the libretto and all the ensembles are incomplete fragments of several states of the text which as indicated by a note from a previous owner cannot be reclassified in logical order. Some fragments appear to be drafts of poems. Agence générale de copies dramatiques et littéraires H. Compère unknown
195383261Chassy 1953. Fine. Chassy 30 décembre 1953 9 x 14.50 cm une feuille Signed autograph postcard from Balthus addressed to gallerist Henriette Gomès 17 lines in black ink. A clear dampstain in the upper right margin of the postcard depicting a ski slope. ""Chassy le 30 XII 53 Ma petite Henriette comme il n'est pas impossible que mon petit mot de Rome ait été englouti par la pgrève je préfère pour plus de sûreté t'envoyer une nouvelle litanie de souhaits et de bons voeux d'ici où je suis rentré hier - Quand viens-tu J'espère que tu t'arrangeras popur rester quelques jours. Je t'embrasse ainsi qu'André. B. L'adresse de Georges Parent G. Parent 1 rue de Narbonne Paris 7e."""" ""Chassy December 30th 53 / My dear little Henriette / as it's not impossible that my little note from Rome was swallowed up by the strike I prefer for greater safety to send you a new litany of wishes and good wishes from here where I returned yesterday - When are you coming I hope you'll arrange to stay a few days. I embrace you as well as André. B. Georges Parent's address G. Parent 1 rue de Narbonne Paris 7th."" ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a group of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rothschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they divided among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in continual restoration work. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. She remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a love affair with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown
195375938Chaumard 1953. Fine. Chaumard juillet 1953 21.80 x 27.90 cm une page sur un feuillet Signed autograph letter from Balthus addressed to gallerist Henriette Gomès. One page written in black ink on a sheet envelope attached. Transverse fold marks inherent to mailing. ""Impossible to remember Baladine's address on Bd St Michel."" Baladine is the nickname of Merline Klossowska Balthus's mother who was also Rilke's mistress. ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a collective of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rotschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they distributed among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in a continual renovation site. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. The latter remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a romantic relationship with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown
196183260Rome Rome 1961. Fine. Rome Rome s. d. circa 1961 22 x 27.50 cm une page sur un feuillet Signed autograph letter from Balthus addressed to gallerist Henriette Gomès. One page written in black ink on letterhead of the Académie de France in Rome of which Balthus was appointed director by André Malraux in 1961 13 lines. Transverse folds inherent to mailing two small tears in left and right margins of the letter not touching the text pin marks in upper left margin of the letter the ink of certain words having faded. ""Ma petite Henriette imossible de me souvenir de l'adresse de Claude Hersent ni de celle de Lefebvre dont je ne trouve plus l'enveloppe. C'est donc à toi que j'envoie le papier ci-joint à remettre au personnage en question. - Quant aux dégats subis par mon tableau une fois la toile montée il n'y parait plus. Donc inutile de se lancer dans des correspondances à n'en plus finir. Je t'embrasse. B."" ""My dear little Henriette / impossible to remember Claude Hersent's address or that of Lefebvre whose envelope I can no longer find. So it's to you that I'm sending the enclosed paper to give to the person in question. - As for the damage suffered by my painting once the canvas is mounted it no longer shows. So no need to launch into endless correspondence. I embrace you. B."" ""During the summer of 1952 Balthus found a château in the Nièvre between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers Henriette Gomès Pierre Matisse and with them a group of collectors including Maurice Rheims Alix de Rothschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they divided among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in continual restoration work. He had for company to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris the poet Léna Leclercq met through Giacometti. She remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile Balthus had begun a love affair with his niece by marriage Frédérique Tison daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife."" Fondation Balthus unknown
