Autograph Letters & Manuscripts
Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
321 lots
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1 - BEAUTIFUL ARTS. Manuscript a.s., 4 L.A.S. and 2 postcards. Paul Bapst (about an ornament by Marie-Antoinette), Édouard Detaille, Lucien Jusseaume, Paul Roux (2 cards), Maurice Talmeyr (ms of article on Philippe de Champaigne and l. of mailing).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
2 - BEAUTIFUL ARTS. About 60 L.A.S. Gabriel-Rousseau (to Frantz Jourdain, 1923). Paul Gallimard. Édouard Gatteaux. Gustave Geffroy (7, to R. Binet, F. Clerget and Henri Béraud). Waldemar George (to Maurice Sachs, 1928). Jean-Léon Gérôme (6, to Chérif Pacha, Bénédict Masson..., 1872-1902). Henri Gervex (2). Félix Giacomotti. Giraldon-Bovinet. Karl Girardet. Jules Girardet (Champex 1892). Pierre Girieud. Léon Glaize (12 LAS to Noël Charavay et Mme, 1908-1921). Marie-Éléonore Godefroid (
Result €832Estimate €400 - €500 -
3 - Giovanni BOLDINI (1842-1934). L.A.S., [Paris] April 19, 1922; 1 page in-8. An L.A.S. by Henri Rochefort is attached concerning a painting by Boldini, exchanged for a piece of furniture and a "Honderkoeeter". "I warn you that I have given permission to reproduce my painting of the Salon to L'Illustration [...] Please write to them for the copyright"....
Result €204Estimate €200 - €250 -
4 - Bernard BUFFET (1928-1999). 2 typescripts signed, and a manuscript written in his name by Pierre Bergé, [February 1958]; 4 and a half pages and 1 and a half pages in-4, and 2 and a half pages in-4. Attached is a manuscript a.s. by André François, Le Trompe-l'oeuf dans la décoration (1 p. in-4); plus 2 pages of an unidentified text on art. Typescript of an interview by André Parinaud [partly published in Arts, February 19, 1958], notably on abstract art ("I am violently against [...] ab
Result €768Estimate €400 - €500 -
5 - Bernard BUFFET. P.A.S., [early 1965]; 99 x 73 cm on heavy paper (small slit at the upper edge, some slight traces of tape on the back). Calligraphic poster design in red and black felt pens on pencil tracing, dominated by a large signature of the artist, for his exhibition at the Galerie David et Garnier, 6 Avenue Matignon Paris 8ème from February 5 to March 6, 1965.
Result €1,792Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
6 - Bernard BUFFET. P.A.S. with original signed drawing, Propriano (Corsica) 15 July 1967, to the publisher Sven Nielsen; 1 page oblong in-4, large format illustrated postcard (photograph of the Iles Sanguinaires), envelope. Card written in four hands with his wife Annabel and a couple of friends (Christian and Jacqueline) who are sharing their holidays in Corsica. In the lower left corner, Bernard Buffet has made a black felt pen drawing depicting a sun shining above the sea, and signed: "Amitié
Result €500Estimate €400 - €500 -
7 - [Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985)]. Henri BERLEWI (1894-1967). Autograph manuscript, Dialogue with Chagall, [1951]; 14 pages in-4, with erasures, corrections and additions. The first 8 leaves are occupied by "Questions asked by Berlewi", and the 6 others by Chagall's answers to some of them, in particular on his beginnings, colour, Picasso and Matisse. "I come from the blood of the people. Continued by my parents. It is to them that I am indebted for what I am. My talent was passed down to me by my mot
Result €537Estimate €300 - €400 -
8 - Gaston CHAISSAC (1910-1964). Autograph manuscript of 3 texts (each signed) with L.A.S. d'envoi, Boulogne par Les Essarts (Vendée) [17 March 1946], to the director of the review Horizon [Robert de La Croix, editor in chief] in Nantes; 3 pages in-4 in purple ink on double copy of schoolboy, address and stamp on p. 4 (holes of file folder). Sending of three surrealist poems. "Gaston Chaissac, a painter from Boulogne par les Essarts (Vendée), sends you his greetings and offers you some surreali
Result €640Estimate €500 - €700 -
9 - Henri-Edmond CROSS (1856-1910). 4 original pencil drawings with autograph notes; 3 pages in-12 on 2 booklets. Two drawings, at different angles, of a lady sitting on a chair, the first one in front of a table on which a cup is placed; in the margin: "Japanese Tea". In the margin of the first sketch: "For pochades of costumes in watercolour, oil, for the boat. - Silk sample card"; in the margin of the second one: "light straw hat light blue bodice dark blue dress with white drawing"... The oth
Result €768Estimate €400 - €500 -
10 - Henri-Edmond CROSS. L.A.S., Le Lavandou (Var) January 23, 1907, to a comrade [Charles Albert]; 2 pages in-8 (small slits in the folds). He regrets that they did not become their neighbors for a few weeks. He regrets that they did not become their neighbors for a few weeks. "Please believe that my wife and I will be happy to receive you when it is convenient for you, and if even you and Madame agree to share our lunch, you will double our joy since it will be a means of possessing you for a lo
Estimate €100 - €150 -
11 - Not available
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12 - Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917). Autograph poem signed, to José Maria de Hérédia, [circa 1889-1890]; 1 page in-4. Rare sonnet of the painter (according to Paul Valéry, he wrote about twenty of them; eight were published). It is the introductory poem of the posthumous edition of the eight Sonnets by Degas in a limited edition (20 copies), printed on June 25, 1914, by Alexandre Gaspard-Michel [and the publisher Alexis Rouart]) The sonnet is dedicated to José-Maria de HEREDIA. The present manuscript
Result €5,120Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
13 - Edgar DEGAS. L.A.S., Monday [February 2, 1891], to painter and critic Edmond Cousturier; 2 pages in-8, envelope. A meeting of painters. "Would that suit you, my dear Mr. Cousturier? Here are the people from Dienay who have finally returned, they will be Saturday with the Ganderaxes and us two Bartholomews, plus Manzi and Boldini I think, eating macaroni, 10 avenue MacMahon [...] Come, or straight ahead, or by a hook at the Jeanniot's, which it is always good to speed up. The place is a kind of
Result €1,920Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
14 - Edgar DEGAS. L.A.S., Tuesday, to Henri Lerolle; 1 page in-12, address on the back (framed). "Yes, my dear Lerolle, see you on Monday. We're going to start with this town councillor, if he's willing " .
Result €1,920Estimate €500 - €600 -
15 - Not available
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16 - Gustave DORÉ (1832-1883). L.A.S., to a friend; 2 pages in-8 (mitre marks on one edge). "I have just received a rather serious letter from a lawyer by which he informs me that having lent my home to Mr. de Neuville for his work, I must be warned that a seizure has already been made rue St Georges of the paintings there was... I was unaware of all this! What is to be done? What does that mean? What advice are you giving me? Where is he perching? What is there for me to do in the face of this s
Result €384Estimate €300 - €400 -
17 - Jean DUBUFFET (1901-1985) painter. 7 L.A.S., 4 L.S. and 11 autograph notes (one signed), [1948]-1960 and n.d., to Sibille Boffard; 23 pages in various formats, 2 on her letterhead. Enclosed are the facsimile postcard for the Art Brut exhibition at René Drouin (October 11, 1949); the prospectus on pink paper for the exhibition of La Métromanie (February 4, 1950, small tear); 2 l.a.s. by Lili Dubuffet, and one l.a.s. by Alexandre Vialatte (1964), in Sibille; a group photograph with Dubuffet an
Result €6,400Estimate €4,000 - €5,000 -
18 - Raoul DUFY (1877-1953). Autograph manuscript with 2 original drawings, in pencil; 9 pages oblong in-16 (6.8 x 10.4 cm) on 5 sheets removed from a small notebook, studio stamp. Project for a painting or theatre set. "The Persian blue sky with brown streaks guaranteed the whole painting in a large dark blue aureole the moon moss green and white in a pinkish mist. The white of the houses made of cobalt violet mixed with bright yellow with whitish green shadows the coloured ground in the centre of
Result €1,280Estimate €500 - €700 -
19 - Édouard GOERG (1893-1969). L.A.S., Le Pradon Sainte-Rose, Callian (Var) August 24, 1964; 1 page and a half in-4 on his letterhead. "Last July 11 your brother wrote me a letter in which he expressed very pleasant feelings to read about my work. He assured me that you share his feelings and that it would be pleasant for you to receive a few words from me in return. It is with great pleasure that I enclose for you these few lines to the letter that after a long embarrassed silence I am writing t
Estimate €80 - €100 -
20 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). Postcard signed; 10.5 x 15 cm. Reproduction of his Eye Scales number five (1971), signed on the back in white pencil on a black background.
Result €128Estimate €80 - €100 -
21 - [Moses KISLING (1891-1953)]. 16 letters or pieces addressed to him or concerning him. 15 letters addressed to Kisling in gratitude for his donations of paintings and drawings to charities, especially Jewish charities: Herman Shumling (Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee), Victor A. Sax (United Jewish Appeal), L. Lévy (Aid to the Blind Israelis), Julian Street Jr. of the Treasury Department (War Finance Campaign), R. Job (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants), Guy de Rothschild (Fonds Social Juif Unifié),
Result €256Estimate €150 - €200 -
22 - Henri LEBASQUE (1865-1937). L.A.S., Le Cannet June 17, 1931; 1 page and a half small in-4. He cannot take care of an exhibition, "being far from Paris [...] and will not be able to exhibit some of the paintings I have at home. But Mr. Gaston Bernheim of the Georges-Petit house will take care of it, and organize the sending of the paintings they have. I hope to be able to go to Rouen for the duration of the exhibition...".
Result €128Estimate €80 - €100 -
23 - Max LIEBERMANN (1847-1935). L.A.S., Berlin 6 March 1918; 1 page in-8; in German. It is impossible for him to paint this month's portrait of his correspondent, as he is currently overwhelmed with portraits ("ist mir unmöglich, Ihr Porträt noch in diesem Monat zu malen, da ich augenblicklich mit Porträtaufträgen überhäuft bin"). If he comes to Berlin for the Oppenheim sale [19 March 1918, collection of paintings by Baron Albert Oppenheim], they will make an appointment for the posing sessi
Result €768Estimate €300 - €400 -
24 - Édouard MANET (1832-1883). L.A.S., 4 rue Saint-Pétersbourg November 6 [1873], to Éva Gonzalès; 1 page in-8 at her address, envelope (framed). "Dear Miss I could not find corsages among the women merchants I know...".
Result €3,200Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
25 - Édouard Marty (1851-1913) painter, draftsman and illustrator]. 4 L.A.S. to him [1894 and n.d.]; various sizes (framed). Georges Bottini (he asked him to lend him 10 francs: "Je vous montrerai ma loge ce soir"), M. Grus (?) (from the Théâtre de l'œuvre about the programme of Strindberg's Père de Strindberg promised by Vallotton), Jean-François Raffaëlli (worried that it is written that the engravings in L'Estampe originale "are engraved or lithographed by M. Grus"), and Jean-François R
Result €768Estimate €400 - €500 -
26 - Roberto MATTA (1911-2002). L.A.S. with drawing, to the gallery owner Julien Lévy; 2 pages in-4 in black pencil with red and green highlights (some small slits on the edges). Beautiful and rare illustrated letter from the Chilean surrealist painter. At the top of the first page, Matta calligraphed in large letters "Julien" with black and red grease pencils, and drew a green shape, surrounded by pencil strokes, captioned: "Fatal circles of the fly". " At the tenebrum of the theatrical death
Result €1,920Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
27 - Joan MIRó (1893-1983). 2 L.A.S., Montroig 1932-1933, to a lady; 1 page and a half in-4 and 1 page in-4 (binder holes, slight wetting). About the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, founded in 1932 by Colonel W. de Basil and René Blum. October 9, 1932. "The models of the ballets with which I collaborated belong to Messrs. Kochno and Massine [...] On my return from Paris, I put Monsieur de Bazil in touch with Mr. Joan Prats, from Barcelona, to take care of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo's perf
Result €2,816Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
28 - Claude MONET (1840-1926). L.A.S., Giverny October 28, 1893, to Mrs. widow Flament, in Argenteuil; 1 page and a quarter in-8 in purple ink to Giverny's address, envelope. Letter relating to the Déjeuner sur l'herbe, which Monet had left as a pledge at Flament's, carpenter in Argenteuil, and which he recovered through Gustave Caillebotte. "I apologize for not replying earlier to your letter of September 20th, but I was still thinking of coming to Argenteuil to a friend's house and was countin
Result €4,480Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
29 - Claude monet. L.A.S. "Claude", Monday 2 a.m.; 1 page and a half in-8 (small slit in the fold). " I take advantage of a moment of rest to send you some money because tonight it would be too late. Always good weather, it works very well but the wind is west I have for 3 or 4 days and the main ones would be saved if the weather doesn't change come. Try to take an early train so that I can have lunch with you I will be free at 10am until noon. Finally if the weather changes on Thursday I will go
Result €2,560Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
30 - Jacques MONORY (1924-2018). L.A.S., Cachan November 20, 1980, to art critic Alain Coulange; 1 page in-4 with his ink stamp. He has read Pierre Bourgeade's texts and finds them "quite finely funny", but does not see what he could add to them. "On the other hand, I am more and more reluctant to "illustrate" except when there is a deep chord, in which case I avoid lithographs etc. if possible. This requires work. I cannot commit myself to this [...], it is a necessity for me. Perhaps another time
Estimate €80 - €100 -
31 - Léonce ROSENBERG (1879-1947) gallery owner and art dealer. L.S., Paris June 1, 1934 ;1 page and a half in-4. Response to a critical article on cubism. ... " There are only three kinds of painting: noble painting, bourgeois painting, concierge painting. Thanks to cubism, we have known noble painting in the 20th century for twenty-five years. I hope that in the century of speed, where the scenery changes so quickly, the next painting will not go back to roture. ...] The French genius in art is
Result €1,280Estimate €250 - €300 -
32 - Armand SEGUIN (1869-1903). L.A.S., Pont-Aven Tuesday morning, [to Édouard Marty]; 1 page in-8, vignette of the Villa Julia. "I received at the same time your dispatch and the news that the parcel had arrived in Quimperlé. I will receive it in the evening and will do my best to return the prints tomorrow...".
Result €640Estimate €500 - €700 -
33 - Paul SIGNAC (1863-1935). Autograph notes; 3 pages and a quarter in-fol. (most in pencil). "Italy is a tolerant and promising land, soft grace and ease. - Leaving abstraction for life. The past is death. To become aware. Stripping. Recrudescence of life. Surrendering to things. Pretending to be natural - by every action to serve it. ...] Man has not said it all - what riches are hidden behind are suffocating cultures ... Extirpate is the remedy of the weak: inability to not react, weakness of
Result €896Estimate €600 - €800 -
34 - Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901). L.A.S., Monday, to Édouard Marty; 1 page in-12, address on reverse (framed). " Zandomeneghi is having a private exhibition at Durand-Ruel, which opens Wednesday. Find yourself there at 5 a.m. tomorrow Tuesday and we might be able to introduce you to Degas. In any case Alexandre will give you materials for the article "...
Result €3,200Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
35 - Ennius-Quirinus VISCONTI (1751-1818), archaeologist, first curator of antiquities at the Louvre Museum. L.A.S. and P.A., Rome 1st Vendémiaire VII (22 September 1798), to Joseph-Antoine Florens (17621842), commissioner of the Executive Directory of the French Republic in Rome; 10 pages and a quarter in-fol. and 4 pages in-4, envelope with red wax seal. Two issues of the Monitore di Roma (Nos. 60 and 62), attacking Visconti, are enclosed and attached by the latter to his letter. Long justifica
Result €1,024Estimate €400 - €500 -
36 - Isaac ALBENIZ (1860-1909). L.A.S., [Paris], to a friend; 2 pages in-8 at his address 49, Rue Erlanger (trace of glue on an edge). He expresses his admiration for "the young French school" which inspires him: "you will always find me on the breche, and fighting for the good cause, seizing the slightest little ocasion; I wish that the one who works with us, will do the good results I hope, and that the great artist who is Nikisch, will give you the justice that is due to you"...
Estimate €300 - €400 -
37 - Émilienne André, known as Émilienne d'ALENÇON (1870-1945), actress and famous courtesan. L.A.S. " E. André", 139, avenue Victor-Hugo [August 1912], to her banker; 2 pages in-8 with her number and address (recipient's notes in blue pencil). "I need you to advance me fifty thousand Francs, take security on the annuity securities you have on deposit and deposit the sum to my account for tomorrow because a cheque will be presented "...
Result €102Estimate €100 - €150 -
38 - BALLETS RUSSES DE MONTE-CARLO. 12 L.A.S., 1933-1934, to director W. de Basil or his secretary (file holes). Correspondence relating to the collaboration of artists and composers (most with carbon copies of letters addressed to them by the Ballets Russes), and their stamp. André Derain, Jean Françaix (2, plus one from his father Alfred Françaix and a telegram), André Masson, Nicolas Nabokoff (2, one incomplete), Pedro Pruna (5, about the ballet Les Matelots).
Result €1,920Estimate €500 - €700 -
39 - Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869). L.A.S., London May 16 [1848], to the music publisher Étienne Masset, at Mr. Troupenas' music store; 2 pages in-8, address. "Morel writes to me that you are kind enough to give me facilities and time to pay for the ticket you have in your hands, I thank you for it. Only please tell me how and in what latitude you intend to give me the means to pay for it. I cannot at this time give you any account but I will be able to do so at the beginning of July. At that time, e
Result €512Estimate €400 - €500 -
40 - Feodor CHALIAPINE (1873-1938). Programme dated and signed, 1932; in-4 of 4 p. with cover illustrated by a drawing by Pierre Le Trividic. Gala de la Presse of 8 March 1932, presented by the Association amicale des Journalistes des quotidiens rouennais, at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen. On the programme, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, with Chaliapine in the role of Don Basile: on the cover, where Le Trividic represented him in this role, he signed: "F. Chaliapin 1932".
Result €192Estimate €100 - €120 -
41 - CINEMA. Charles SPAAK (1903-1975). Signed autograph manuscript (initials) and 4 photos with autograph notes on the back; and 53 letters to him, most of them L.A.S., 1938-1961. Nice set about the screenwriter, with many letters from filmmakers and actors. * L'Arbitrage Victor Francen. Reflections on a serious dispute between Spaak and the actor Francen, and the fate of the screenplay of La Porte du large, plus the minutes of the arbitration before an honorary jury, signed by Charles Burguet, C
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
42 - CINEMA. 22 letters, cards or coins, most of them L.A.S. or autograph cards, many addressed to Roger Cornaille at Le Minotaure bookstore (2 rue des Beaux-Arts). Akakia-Viala (to Nicolas Bataille, 1949), Pierre Decourcelle, Louis Delluc, Marlene Dietrich (photo signed with thanks on the back), Simone Dubreuilh (typing article on the Manon de Clouzot), Charlton Heston (2 dedications), Francis Lacassin, Marcel L'Herbier (to M.F. Gaillard), Jean Mitry, Maurice Noverre (Le Nouvel Art cinématograph
Result €3,456Estimate €500 - €600 -
43 - René CLAIR (1898-1981) filmmaker. 5 L.S. and one L.A.S., Neuilly-sur-Seine 1970-1971, to Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, New York; 8 and a half pages in-4 or in-8 (the L.A.S. in English). Project for an American edition of Cinéma d'hier et d'aujourd'hui [Appelbaum's translation, Cinéma Yesterday and Today, published by Dover in 1972]. December 24, 1970. He left it up to his discretion to publish the book in its entirety, or to make "some lighter" for the American reader... January 1
Estimate €150 - €200 -
44 - Not available
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45 - Henri DECOIN (1890-1969) filmmaker. 2 L.A.S., Neuilly-sur-Seine 1936-1937, to an "old brother"; 1 page in-4 each at his address. October 27, 1936. He still hasn't signed anything for Danielle [Darrieux, his wife], and America excites him less and less. "In March I am shooting a German and French version for the Tobis [Port Arthur]. Me, director; Danielle stars in both versions. She speaks German nicely. She is starting to type a little in English. - Anyway everything is going very well here an
Estimate €150 - €200 -
46 - Leo DELIBES (1836-1891). L.A.S., Paris Tuesday 16 July, to Aimé-Isidore Briguiboul (director of the Casino d'Ems); 1 page and a half in-8. His letter "made him the happiest of men. Certainly not, I haven't given up going to Ems, and I'm going to pack as soon as possible. But it takes me 8 days to do them, because of several small things I have to finish here..."...
Result €230Estimate €100 - €150 -
47 - MISCELLANEOUS. 5 L.S. (including one L.A.S.), 1952-1977, most to Pierre Dux. Bruno Coquatrix, Jacques Duhamel, Pierre Mendès-France, Day Schnabel (l.a.s.), Léon Zitrone.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
48 - Gilbert DUPREZ (1806-1896) the great tenor. L.A.S, Paris 1 July 1864, to Émile Péreire, governor of the Crédit mobilier; 2 and a half pages in-4. An L.A.S. of his son Léon Duprez is attached; plus one of Xavier Leroux, and one of Victorien Sardou. An L.A.S. of his son Léon Duprez is attached; plus one of Xavier Leroux, and one of Victorien Sardou. "You were so kind in welcoming the first opening I had the honour of making to you about the erection of a theatre specially dedicated to mu
Result €76Estimate €100 - €150 -
49 - Henry FÉVRIER (1875-1957). Signed autograph music manuscript, 1st Nocturne, June 1904, and 2 L.A.S., 1915-1916; title and 4 1/2 pages in-fol., and 2 pages in-8 and in-12. The 1st Nocturne for piano is from the Ricardo Viñes Music Library (stamp on cover). In F sharp major at 3 / 4, marked Moderato e molto rubato, it presents numerous corrections, notably by scrapings; the 2nd page has been pasted over an earlier version, and the end has been redone after deletion of the last bar. March 15, 1
Result €512Estimate €200 - €250 -
50 - Firmin GÉMIER (1869-1933) actor and director, first director of the Théâtre National Populaire. 8 L.A.S., [1896-1901] and n.d., to Jules Huret; 21 pages in various formats, most with headings, including a Renaissance Theatre. Direction Gémier, 2 envelopes. Attached are 2 telegrams and the minute a.s. of a reply from Huret, November 18, 1896. Monday [September 14, 1896]. He complains that Huret did not support him when Ginisty tries to "get rid of Antoine's friends" at the Odeon: "there ar
Estimate €150 - €200
About the sale
PRIVATE EXHIBITION:
by appointment with the expert until March 12, 2021
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Monday 15 March from 11am to 6pm
Tuesday 16 March from 11am to 12pm
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