Eugène BOUDIN. L.A.S., Deauville December 12, 1891, to Ferdinand MARTIN; 4pages in-8 in blue ink. He has had a cold and is in pain: "there are pains everywhere, neuralgia in the mouth, in the heart... I'm still standing, just about, but like the ruins, every year a piece falls off, and yet I'm, or rather I'd be, overwhelmed with work if I could stir it up. But what obstacles! the day is sad in this season, then the difficulty of bringing to his canvases the perfection so difficult to achieve... and moreover this indigeance of the temperament which softens"... He recalls the death of their comrade Dubourg, the Jongkind sale, and the death of "la mère Fesser" a fortnight before the sale... "If one neglects painters a little when they live, one apotheosizes them nicely as soon as they die. Here's his home town wanting to erect - already - a statue to Ribot!"...