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FRENCH ARTISTS -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of eight autograph letters signed and one autograph manuscript including: Aristide MAILLOL (to Gaspard [Maillol, his nephew], Marly-le-roi, n.d., a supportive and encouraging letter saying that he has sold four of Gaspard's drawings to Count Kessler -- 'Voila le commencement de ton succes' -- and is now waiting for [Eugene] Druet, and in a postscript adding that Bonnard has seen his earlier drawings and said that he found them very good, written in red ink, 3 pages, 8vo ); Maurice DENIS (three, including 2 to an unidentified correspondent [the writer Georges Goyau], the first, Perros Guirec, 13 August 1922, on the 'reverie diatribe' of Jean Guiraud who accused him in La Croix of a liturgical error in his painting of the foundation of the Society of Jesus, the second n.d., on arrangements for the use of photographs of his work; and one to [Yves] Alix, n.p., 3 April [1934?] advising him about the durability of his materials (in frescoes) particularly at Saint-Louis de Vincennes and at Rouen which Vuillard has recently visited, 2 pages, 4to and one page, 8vo ); Juan GRIS (two to unidentified correspondents, n.p., 15 March [19]17, declining an invitation, 'C'est regrettable que pour le moment je n'ai pas de tableaux dans mon atelier pour organiser cette s©eance', 1½ pages, 8vo ; and, n.d., explaining that unforeseen circumstances caused him to miss his correspondents visit, 2 pages, 8vo ); Frantisek KUPKA (two, to Arthur Meyer (director of Le Gaulois ), Puteaux, 23 August 1915, sending four versions of his frontispiece for a volume of poems by the Baronne de Brimont, Laccouchement etait je lavoue, assez difficile, one page, 8vo , and to Georges Turpin, Puteaux, 22 July 19[36], thanking him for an article on his exhibition [with Alphonse Mucha at the Jeu de Paume], 'c'est vous qui avez ©ecrit le plus clairement et en homme averti', and commenting on the irritatingly ignorant attitude of the press to any attempt to depart from traditionalist painting, 3 pages, 8vo , autograph envelope); James ENSOR (1860-1949), autograph manuscript article 'Le parc unique Pourquoi et comment il faudrait relier le Parc Leopold au Parc Marie-Henriette', n.p. [Ostend], n.d. [March 1928?], putting the case for protecting Leopold II's vision for Ostend, and attacking the 'irreparable devastation' carried out in the name of progress and short-sighted modernisation, 3 pages, 8vo ; and Chaim SOUTINE, autograph letter signed, in French, to Lejeune, Nice, [1932], 2 pages, 8vo . (9)
FRENCH ARTISTS -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of eight autograph letters signed and one autograph manuscript including: Aristide MAILLOL (to Gaspard [Maillol, his nephew], Marly-le-roi, n.d., a supportive and encouraging letter saying that he has sold four of Gaspard's drawings to Count Kessler -- 'Voila le commencement de ton succes' -- and is now waiting for [Eugene] Druet, and in a postscript adding that Bonnard has seen his earlier drawings and said that he found them very good, written in red ink, 3 pages, 8vo ); Maurice DENIS (three, including 2 to an unidentified correspondent [the writer Georges Goyau], the first, Perros Guirec, 13 August 1922, on the 'reverie diatribe' of Jean Guiraud who accused him in La Croix of a liturgical error in his painting of the foundation of the Society of Jesus, the second n.d., on arrangements for the use of photographs of his work; and one to [Yves] Alix, n.p., 3 April [1934?] advising him about the durability of his materials (in frescoes) particularly at Saint-Louis de Vincennes and at Rouen which Vuillard has recently visited, 2 pages, 4to and one page, 8vo ); Juan GRIS (two to unidentified correspondents, n.p., 15 March [19]17, declining an invitation, 'C'est regrettable que pour le moment je n'ai pas de tableaux dans mon atelier pour organiser cette s©eance', 1½ pages, 8vo ; and, n.d., explaining that unforeseen circumstances caused him to miss his correspondents visit, 2 pages, 8vo ); Frantisek KUPKA (two, to Arthur Meyer (director of Le Gaulois ), Puteaux, 23 August 1915, sending four versions of his frontispiece for a volume of poems by the Baronne de Brimont, Laccouchement etait je lavoue, assez difficile, one page, 8vo , and to Georges Turpin, Puteaux, 22 July 19[36], thanking him for an article on his exhibition [with Alphonse Mucha at the Jeu de Paume], 'c'est vous qui avez ©ecrit le plus clairement et en homme averti', and commenting on the irritatingly ignorant attitude of the press to any attempt to depart from traditionalist painting, 3 pages, 8vo , autograph envelope); James ENSOR (1860-1949), autograph manuscript article 'Le parc unique Pourquoi et comment il faudrait relier le Parc Leopold au Parc Marie-Henriette', n.p. [Ostend], n.d. [March 1928?], putting the case for protecting Leopold II's vision for Ostend, and attacking the 'irreparable devastation' carried out in the name of progress and short-sighted modernisation, 3 pages, 8vo ; and Chaim SOUTINE, autograph letter signed, in French, to Lejeune, Nice, [1932], 2 pages, 8vo . (9)