Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème," September 1929, with L.A.S. of dispatch, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cut on the title page), and 1 page and a half in-8.

This important "fragment" that Rictus carefully copied for the Attorney General Pressard is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention in favor of Rictus with the Minister... who doubled his pension... 
 "How sweet, how beautiful / to see, / in the evening, / in some modest family, / the Beautiful Child being undressed"...
A L.A.S. with a drawing is attached (2 p. in-8), where Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait of the armchair", ink and blue pencil).
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Lot no. 267

Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème," September 1929, with L.A.S. of dispatch, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cut on the title page), and 1 page and a half in-8. This important "fragment" that Rictus carefully copied for the Attorney General Pressard is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention in favor of Rictus with the Minister... who doubled his pension... "How sweet, how beautiful / to see, / in the evening, / in some modest family, / the Beautiful Child being undressed"... A L.A.S. with a drawing is attached (2 p. in-8), where Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait of the armchair", ink and blue pencil).

Estimate
€500 - €700
Result
Not sold
Buyer's premium
28%
Jehan RICTUS. Autograph manuscript signed, Le Bel-Enfant. Fragment encore inédit de poème," September 1929, with L.A.S. of dispatch, January 26, 1931; 6 pages in-4 (small cut on the title page), and 1 page and a half in-8. This important "fragment" that Rictus carefully copied for the Attorney General Pressard is accompanied by a letter, thanking the Attorney for his intervention in favor of Rictus with the Minister... who doubled his pension... "How sweet, how beautiful / to see, / in the evening, / in some modest family, / the Beautiful Child being undressed"... A L.A.S. with a drawing is attached (2 p. in-8), where Rictus complains about the upholsterer who gave him back a crude imitation of the armchair he had entrusted to him (with "Portrait of the armchair", ink and blue pencil).
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