Camille SAINT-SAËNS. 15 L.A.S., 1900-1912 and s.d., to paint - Lot 114

Camille SAINT-SAËNS. 15 L.A.S., 1900-1912 and s.d., to painter Paul Steck; 18 pages, mostly in-8. Friendly correspondence. Invitations to dinner: "Si tu veux venir à 7 h y aura quéqu'chose à boulotter et des convives très gentils", and to the concert (at Sarah Bernhardt's); advice (with ornate initials): "Je n'ai pas dit qu'il ne faut pas vendre (d'une façon absolue) mais seulement qu'il faut perfectionner avant de le livrer à la consommation"...; "Puisque tu besoin de faire bouillir la marmite, pourquoi n'utilisez-tu pas pour cela ta facilité musicale? Music not being your art, you could without dishonor make songs for café concerts and the like, just as I could paint signs or mantelpieces. You earn a lot of money in this profession"; St Germain en Laye Saturday evening: "I saw Gerôme earlier, and he wants to see you and talk to you"; would he have lent him his Japanese drawings? Cannes December 14, 1901: "Writing! it's easy to say, but I'm dying to write letters", he leaves for Africa... September 19, 1912: he finds young Baudoux's letter: "These sculpted lava rocks are very amusing [...] If you can be useful to the author of this pretty painting, it will give me great pleasure"...; Monte Carlo March 23, 1915: "the memory of your father is mixed with so many memories of my youth!"...