‎Autographes‎

‎Marcel JOUHANDEAU‎

‎Billet autographe signé de Marcel Jouhandeau adressé à son cher ami‎

‎1941. Fine. Samedi 6 novembre 1941 10 x 15.80 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Marcel Jouhandeau addressed to his dear friend. 9 lines in blue ink on a leaf fold marks inherent to the letter's folding for envelope. ""Malgré le très grand plaisir que je me faisais de vous recevoir demain. Je ne suis pas libre. Excusez-moi. Dès que possible. Je vous ferai signe."" ""Despite the great pleasure I was looking forward to receiving you tomorrow. I am not free. Excuse me. As soon as possible. I will let you know."" Fine condition. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73217

‎Lawrence DURRELL‎

‎"D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé très mal d'ailleurs par les vampires"" • Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun‎

‎Sommières 1971. Fine. Sommières 20-04-1971 10.50 x 14.50 cm une carte postale et enveloppe Autograph postcard by Lawrence Durrell signed ""Dracula"" addressed to Jani Brun written in blue ink reproduction of a drawing by Marcel Vaysse ""Ils sortent.tous les soirs"" ""They go out.every evening"" envelope included. The writer teasingly mocks his young Montpellier mistress with humor: ""Darling Janie - maintenant qu'il fait beau la saison est ouverte et malgré mon age je reçois pas mal des invitations; souvent les filles de dix ans m'envoient des propositions inscrites par télégramme. J'estime que le rôle de papa gâteux me va bien ""le gâtisme c'est le relachment des sphinctères"" Dictionnaire medicale - Pujot"". Je vais en Grèce avec une 2 3 4 filles plus fidé que vous pour faire des reportages appellation contrôlée. D'avoir soixante ans et d'être aimé très mal d'ailleurs par les vampires - n'est pas que c'est splendide Dracula"" ""Darling Janie - now that the weather is fine the season is open and despite my age I receive quite a few invitations; often ten-year-old girls send me proposals written by telegram. I think the role of a doting daddy suits me well 'dotage is the loosening of the sphincters' Medical Dictionary - Pujot. I'm going to Greece with one 2 3 4 girls more faithful than you to do some appellation contrôlée reporting. To be sixty years old and to be loved very badly moreover by vampires - isn't that splendid Dracula"" After many years spent in Greece Egypt and Rhodes the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the ""Tartès house"" his large dwelling surrounded by trees he wrote the second part of his work his monumental Avignon Quintet devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin violinist Yehudi Menuhin London publisher Alan G. Thomas and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho. Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun he met in the mid-1960s the young and sparkling ""Jany"" Janine Brun a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty who worked at the Department of Antiquities at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed ""Buttons"" in memory of their first meeting where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of ""Buttons"" praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell she made numerous trips particularly to England from where she received extensive correspondence from the writer as well as original artworks signed with his artist pseudonym Oscar Epfs. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73354

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Daniel Rouy‎

‎s. l. 1849. Fine. s. l. 1837 ou 1849 9.90 x 14.30 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed ""votre bien dévoué Gérard"" addressed to Daniel Rouy. Envelope included. This letter simply dated ""Le 12"" could have been written in August 1849 if we refer to a letter to Ernesta Grisi companion of his friend Théophile Gautier in which the poet mentions such a discount: ""Je n'ai pu toucher l'argent qu'aujourd'hui mercredi. M. Rouy n'y était pas. J'y suis allé 4 fois et j'ai porté les 10F. aujourd'hui je ne sais pas s'il faut faire le prochain feuilleton ni comment il faut signer."" ""I could only get the money today Wednesday. Mr. Rouy was not there. I went 4 times and brought the 10F. today I don't know if I should do the next serial or how to sign it."" Pléiade volume 1 letter 143 of August 30 1849. However Michel Brix author of Nerval Glanes et miettes de presse and member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium very kindly pointed out to us that Nerval signed ""Gérard"" rather between 1837 and 1840 and that in 1849 he signed this type of note ""Gérard de Nerval"". unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73289

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Billet autographe signé de Gérard de Nerval adressé à Eugène de Stadler‎

‎Paris 1854. Fine. Paris s. d. après le 8 août 1854 9.70 x 13.20 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph note signed ""Gérard"" addressed to his close friend Eugène de Stadler. Envelope included. Folds inherent to posting. A small hole in the envelope consequence of its sealing. This note has been transcribed in the correspondence published in the Pléiade edition volume 3 p. 889. Astonishing and succinct note written just after his arrival at Doctor Blanche's inviting his friend to dinner ""à la meson sic Blanche"" ""at the Blanche house"". On the envelope in an even more disordered handwriting than that of the note one reads a few words in pencil: ""J'ai donné à Antony et à Blanche . Mirecourt"" ""I gave to Antony and to Blanche . Mirecourt"". Gérard de Nerval had indeed discovered a few months earlier a pamphlet by Eugène de Mirecourt dedicated to him: "".j'ai trouvé la biographie sur l'étalage d'un libraire. Mirecourt m'a bien chargé. Il m'a peint en beau.et en buste. Je relèverai les erreurs quelque autre jour mais il a trop parlé de ma misère"" "".I found the biography on a bookseller's stall. Mirecourt has really gone after me. He has painted me favorably.and in bust. I will point out the errors some other day but he has talked too much about my poverty"" Letter to Georges Bell of June 1 1854. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73343

‎Gerard de NERVAL‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Auguste Cavé‎

‎Paris 1841. Fine. Paris 18 novembre 1841 13.90 x 20.80 cm une page sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Auguste Cavé written in careful handwriting in black ink on the first page of a double sheet. Minor traces of folds inherent to posting and some light foxing. This letter was transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. After two violent nervous breakdowns Gérard de Nerval was compelled to stay at Dr. Blanche's clinic between March and November 1841. Short of money he addressed this letter to his friend Auguste Cavé then director of the Fine Arts section at the Ministry of the Interior to solicit his support with ""M. le Ministre"": ""Quoi qu'entièrement rendu à la santé je sens que je ne puis encore travailler qu'avec ménagement et s'il était possible que l'on m'aidât d'une légère somme mensuelle . je serais plus sûr de pouvoir reprendre peu à peu ma position littéraire sans risquer de nouveaux accidens"" ""Though entirely restored to health I feel that I can only work with care and if it were possible to be helped with a small monthly sum . I would be more certain of being able to gradually resume my literary position without risking new accidents"". unknown‎

Référence libraire : 72914

‎Octave MIRBEAU‎

‎"je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète."" • Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to Alfred Natanson‎

‎Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 1901. Fine. Nice Villa Ibrahim chemin des Baumettes Nice 8 Février 1901 12.50 x 17.60 cm une feuille Friendly autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche Alfred Natanson some time after his marriage. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet mourning paper with black border watermarked ""JDL & cie"" envelope included. ""Je vous envoie à votre femme et à vous tous nos vœux affectueux et je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète. Mais nous somme vos amis et nous vous embrassons de tout notre cœur. Nous avions espéré que vous viendriez passer quelques jours à Cannes et nous nous faisions une fête de vous avoir ici. Misia nous dit que vous avez renoncé à ce voyage. Comme c'est ennuyeux ! ."". ""I send to your wife and to you all our affectionate wishes and I would like to be able to sing a beautiful epithalamium in your honor. The misfortune is that I am not a poet. But we are your friends and we embrace you with all our heart. We had hoped that you would come to spend a few days in Cannes and we were looking forward to having you here. Misia tells us that you have given up this trip. How annoying! ."". Mirbeau was particularly close to the Revue Blanche group since its launch in Paris in 1891. But it was from the Dreyfus affair that his intimate and lasting friendship with the Natanson brothers Thadée Alexandre and Alfred was strengthened. After aesthetic disagreements about Art Nouveau and the Nabis Mirbeau finally reunited with Thadée around 1900 in a now common inclination for the young Nabis painters of the Revue Blanche Bonnard Vallotton and Vuillard. The Revue Blanche played an essential role in France as confirmed by historian Paul-Henri Bourrelier: ""Most of the most prominent writers painters musicians politicians intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collaborated with it or were associated with it. Created financed and directed by the three Natanson brothers young Polish Jews with the enthusiastic complicity of their classmates from the Condorcet lycée La Revue blanche quickly became a place of debate on all subjects that stirred France. It led political battles under the impulse of anarchists like Fénéon Mirbeau; socialists such as Blum G. Moch Péguy; Dreyfusards and founders of the League of Human Rights like Reinach and Pressensé."" unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73700

‎Sacha GUITRY‎

‎"avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"" • Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené dit Baron fils‎

‎s. l. 1910. Fine. s. l. s. d. 20.70 x 10.60 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené known as Baron fils. 7 lines in blue ink on ""Basseau Strong"" watermarked paper. ""O Grand Baron. Je vous dédie en témoignage de reconnaissance cette bouffonnerie dont vous avez incarné le rôle principal avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"". ""O Great Baron. I dedicate to you in token of gratitude this buffoonery in which you embodied the leading role with that incomparable naturalness which has often been mistaken for talent and which is nothing but comic genius"" The actor Baron fils embodied numerous roles in Sacha Guitry's plays notably La Prise de Berg-op-Zoom La Pèlerine écossaise L'Illusionniste Deburau Le Mari la Femme et l'Amant Nono and Faisons un rêve. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73656

‎Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADE‎

‎Lettre autographe inédite signée du Marquis de Sade alors en liberté au commencement de la Terreur • Unpublished autograph letter signed by the Marquis de Sade then at liberty at the beginning of the Terror‎

‎1793. Fine. 1er avril 1793 15.60 x 20 cm une page sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed and dated written in black ink and addressed to a notary. On the verso probably in the hand of a secretary the inscription ""Sade du 1er avril 1793""; below this inscription a short sentence in the Marquis's hand: ""so that I may write to Gaufridy to send him money"". Some transverse folds from the original folding for posting. Lengthy letter addressed to a notary while the Marquis freed on April 2 1790 by the abolition of royal warrants is at liberty and attempting to put his affairs in order. After the Revolution his sons emigrated and he did not follow them. His name nevertheless appears on the list of persons who left France due to the revolutionary troubles: ""I hope that with all this I will manage to have my name erased from that fatal list of émigrés."" Anxious not to be considered a ci-devant Marquis in this period preceding the Terror he insists on the persecution of which he claims to be a victim despite his good will: ""It is an unparalleled atrocity that such a trick should have been played on me who have not left Paris since the revolution and who since that time have not ceased to give the most unequivocal proofs of my patriotism"". In this letter Sade also denounces the complexity of the workings of the French administration after the Revolution: ""I have just sent M. Lions the appropriate certificate of residence and I have attached a petition to the district which he tells me is . essential."" Impecunious he begs his lawyer ""to excite the zeal of those who owe him and to urge them to pay as much money as they collect immediately to M. Gauffridi sic"" and does not hesitate to show himself obliging in order to achieve his ends: ""spare no effort then I beseech you . always preserve for me your care and your friendship . I embrace and greet you with all my heart."" Sade's efforts would prove futile; in December 1793 he was imprisoned at the Madelonnettes before being admitted through the good offices of his friend Mme Quenet to the Coignard de Picpus establishment a nursing home sheltering wealthy suspects. Interesting unpublished letter showing the unfortunate Marquis at bay during one of his rare moments of freedom. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73394

‎Albert T'SERSTEVENS‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée et adressée à un ami bouquiniste depuis Anduze‎

‎Manosque 1972. Fine. Manosque 17 Juin 1972 10.50 x 15 cm une feuille une enveloppe Autograph postcard signed with 17 lines by Albert T'Serstevens addressed to his friend bookseller and horticulturist Robert Boutin from Anduze on June 17 1972 narrating the rhythm of life he has adopted between work and contemplation of the flourishing nature since he has been residing in the Gard: ""Cher bouquiniste et surtout jardinier depuis exactement un mois je n'ai quitté ma table de travail que pour manger et dormir. les héliantes ont si bien prospéré qu'elles ont couvert toute la plate-bande le long de la façade principale. les vieux tilleuls sont en fleur."" ""Dear bookseller and above all gardener for exactly a month I have not left my work table except to eat and sleep. the sunflowers have thrived so well that they have covered the entire flower bed along the main façade. the old linden trees are in bloom."" Finally he takes leave of his friend by asking him to provide news of himself while waiting to consider returning to Paris. Envelope included. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74197

‎COLETTE‎

‎"On croit toujours que la pensée qui est une force touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."" • Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson‎

‎Paris 1936. Fine. Paris s. d. 12 mars 1936 17.80 x 22.60 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Fine autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in ink on blue headed paper from the Marignan building the writer's residence between 1936 and 1938. Transverse folds inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Moving letter addressed by Colette to her close friend following the death of her father Alexandre Natanson: "". ce dimanche va être un dimanche bien pénible. Je t'écris à l'heure juste où tu conduis ton père."" ""this Sunday is going to be a very painful Sunday. I am writing to you at the very moment when you are laying your father to rest."" Conscious of the suffering and ""chagrin"" ""grief"" of her ""chère Bolette"" ""dear Bolette"" she affectionately offers her support ""On croit toujours que la pensée qui est une force touche son but aussi bien qu'un message écrit."" ""We always believe that thought which is a force reaches its target as well as a written message."" ending her letter with a very beautiful declaration: ""Beaucoup de visages humains se penchent vers le tien et tu ne les aimes pas tous. Le mien que tu ne verras pas te suit de loin et s'inquiète de toi."" ""Many human faces lean toward yours and you do not love them all. Mine which you will not see follows you from afar and worries about you."" Bolette would commit suicide a few months later. Having evolved since her earliest childhood in artistic circles - she was the daughter of Alexandre and the niece of Thadée Natanson the creators of the famous Revue Blanche - Bolette Natanson 1892-1936 became friends with Jean Cocteau Raymond Radiguet Georges Auric Jean Hugo and also Colette. Passionate about couture she left Paris for the United States with Misia Sert a great friend of Coco Chanel and was hired at Goodman. With her husband Jean-Charles Moreux they created in 1929 the gallery Les Cadres on boulevard Saint-Honoré and frequented numerous artists and intellectuals. Their success was immediate and they multiplied their projects: the creation of the fireplace for Winnaretta de Polignac the decoration of the château de Maulny the arrangement of Baron de Rothschild's private mansion the creation of frames for industrialist Bernard Reichenbach and finally the creation of the storefront for Colette's beauty institute in 1932. Bolette Natanson also framed the works of her prestigious painter friends: Bonnard Braque Picasso Vuillard Man Ray André Dunoyer de Segonzac etc. Despite this meteoric rise she would end her life in December 1936 a few months after her father's death. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74160

‎Antonio TORRES‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à sa traductrice en français Alice Raillard‎

‎Coimbra 1995. Fine. Coimbra s. d. circa 1995 14.50 x 10.50 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard dated and signed with 9 lines entirely written in Brazilian by the writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Guyana. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74173

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎"Le passeport français est moche mais il vaut mieux que rien."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen‎

‎s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. • Klarskovgaard 12 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ""ami tenace et obligé"" addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""579"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left. Transverse folds inherent to posting. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Very enigmatic letter: ""Aladin avait déjà une très jolie lampe - avec celle là vous allez voir un peu les trésors que je vais découvrir. Vous avez raison du reste - Carpe Diem ! Mais vous savez la moitié au moins du destin : c'est le PASSEPORT. Le passeport français est moche et moch. mais il vaut mieux que rien."" ""Aladdin already had a very pretty lamp - with this one you're going to see the treasures I'm going to discover. You're right besides - Carpe Diem! But you know at least half of destiny: it's the PASSPORT. The French passport is ugly and ugly. but it's better than nothing."" Note in passing the play on words with the name of Jules Moch vice-president of the council from 1949 to 1950. He informs Mikkelsen: ""J'ai aussi merde ! un cadeau à vous offrir et que vous accepterez nom de dieu ! parce que c'est un livre en Suédois ! donc scandinave ! donc divin ! donc touchable acceptable recevable non puant."" ""I also have damn! a gift to offer you and which you will accept by God! because it's a book in Swedish! therefore Scandinavian! therefore divine! therefore touchable acceptable receivable non-stinking."" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement is confined in Denmark. It is in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrives at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owns a large property by the Baltic Sea and invites the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purification process the writer is definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year's imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish consul general in Paris Raoul Nordling intervenes on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and manages to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtains Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75963

‎COLETTE‎

‎"Je suis sans nouvelles de Sidi. Je me fais toute une chevelure de soucis."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel‎

‎Paris 1914. Fine. Paris 1914 13.60 x 21.20 cm en feuillets Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead. A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Fine letter from Colette testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: ""Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write."" The writer worries: ""I have no news from Sidi Henry de Jouvenel. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is he wrote to me that he was leaving with the 29th for the Somme. Ah! la la la la la la."" ""Colette a entendu sonner le tocsin en Bretagne où elle passait un séjour ensoleillé avec le baron Henry de Jouvenel et leur fille dans sa maison de Rozven. La guerre la surprend en plein bonheur à quarante et un ans. . Son mari appelé dès le 2 août devant rejoindre le 29e régiment d'infanterie à Verdun elle a aussitôt envoyé sa fille à peine âgée d'un an avec sa nurse au château de Castel Novel en Corrèze - chez sa belle-mère. Et elle est rentrée à Paris."" ""Colette heard the tocsin ringing in Brittany where she was spending a sunny stay with Baron Henry de Jouvenel and their daughter in her house at Rozven. The war surprised her in the midst of happiness at forty-one years old. . Her husband called up from August 2nd having to join the 29th infantry regiment at Verdun she immediately sent her daughter barely a year old with her nurse to the château de Castel Novel in Corrèze - to her mother-in-law's. And she returned to Paris."" Dominique Bona Colette et les siennes unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75220

‎Paul SIGNAC - (to Camille PISSARRO)‎

‎"Cela vous ennuirait-il sic d'écrire à Mirbeau qu'un Signac à votre avis ne ressemble pas plus à un Seurat qu'un Hokousai à un Hiroshigé. "" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Camille Pissarro‎

‎1894. Fine. s. d. 23 janvier 1894 22.60 x 17.50 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet déplié Autograph letter signed by Paul Signac addressed to Camille Pissarro written in black ink over two pages and signed with the artist’s monogram. This letter was transcribed in the article by Pierre Michel and Christian Limousin entitled ""Octave Mirbeau et Paul Signac - Une lettre inédite de Signac à Mirbeau"" in Cahiers Octave Mirbeau no. 16 March 2009 pp. 202-210. ""Mon cher Maître Cela vous ennuirait-il sic d'écrire à Mirbeau qu'un Signac à votre avis ne ressemble pas plus à un Seurat qu'un Hokousai à un Hiroshigé. si toutes fois sic le reproche d'imitation dont il cherche à m'accabler vous semble injuste. L'amitié que vous m'avez toujours témoignée et les compliments que vous avez bien voulu faire de mes toiles m'autorisent à vous demander ce service. Cordialement. PS"" A fine letter in which Paul Signac seeks the support of his master Camille Pissarro after a scathing critique published by Octave Mirbeau in L'Echo de Paris. In this article featured on the front page of L'Echo de Paris of 23 January 1894 Octave Mirbeau spares Signac no harshness: « M. Signac a voulu continuer Seurat. Je ne puis me faire à sa peinture. Je ne méconnais pas ses qualités mais elles disparaissent sous l'amoncellement de ses défauts. Ce qu'on admettait de Georges Seurat . on le comprend moins chez M. Signac qui n'en est que l'adepte trop complaisant et trop littéral. Et puis cette continuelle sécheresse me choque. M. Signac fait la nature immobile et figée. Jamais le vent n'a secoué la surface inerte de ses mers ni tordu les branches de ses pins ni animé l'éternelle fixité de ses nuages la raideur cartonnée de ses ciels. Il ignore le mouvement la vie l'âme qui est dans les choses. . Il serait peut-être temps pour notre joie que M. Signac voulût bien nous donner du Signac. Je crois qu'il le peut.» Why this obsession with Seurat « At the beginning of 1894 the position of Mirbeau Geffroy Pissarro and a few others was to consider that Neo-Impressionism had in fact died in 1891 with the passing of Seurat. Their retrospective view of this artistic venture led them to think that it was not a continuation of Impressionism by new scientific means but a reaction against it even a liquidation of the movement.» Cahiers Octave Mirbeau. Pissarro’s reply to Signac also transcribed by Michel and Limousin was not long in coming: it « l'ennuirait d'écrire ce que vous me demandez à Mirbeau et cela pour plusieurs raisons. . Premièrement parce que je suis en froid avec lui vous le savez bien. Deuxièmement parce que pour vous-même il ne sied pas de discuter l'opinion d'un critique même étant persuadé d'être dans le vrai et si vous voulez franchement ma façon de penser et que je suis heureux d'avoir l'occasion de vous exprimer je trouve que la méthode même est mauvaise. Au lieu de servir l'artiste l'ankylose et le glace. Si je vous ai fait des compliments cette année c'est parce que j'ai trouvé vos dernières toiles mieux que celles que vous aviez exposées aux Indépendants mais je suis loin de trouver que vous êtes dans la voie qui convient à votre tempérament essentiellement peintre et si jusqu'à présent je ne vous ai rien dit à ce sujet c'est parce que j'étais sûr de vous être désagréable et somme toute mes convictions peuvent ne pas être partagées par vous. Réfléchissez mûrement et voyez si le moment n'est pas venu de faire votre évolution vers un art plus de sensation plus libre et qui serait plus conforme à votre nature.» « Disheartened and deprived of the authority of a master revered by the critic Signac was left to devise himself without delay the reply to address to Mirbeau . » ibid. This response took the form of a long letter written the same day as the one offered here and now preserved at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin Texas: « Je reconnais hautement que c'est Seurat qui a insta unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75511

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou proposant plusieurs choix de rendez-vous à son correspondant‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. 1890. Fine. S. n. s. l. • Paris s. d. circa 1890 26.50 x 20.50 cm une page et demie sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count one and a half pages 15 lines written in black ink to Henri Lapauze offering him several appointment options at his home: "". I shall be delighted to receive you on Friday at 10 o'clock or at 2 o'clock as you prefer. We are charmed to have you in Douai."" A black ink stain in the margin on the verso of the letter. Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist and art critic who became in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner and Falguière collections with in the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74255

‎George SAND - (Maurice SAND)‎

‎Manuscrit autographe signé à propos du ""Coq aux cheveux d'or"" de Maurice Sand‎

‎Nohant Nohant-Vic 1872. Fine. Nohant Nohant-Vic 19 semptembre 1872 13.20 x 20.60 cm 20 pages 1/2 sur 21 feuillets Autograph manuscript signed by George Sand written in black ink on 21 leaves of white paper. Deletions and corrections. One page of the manuscript appears to have been lost. The final version of this chronicle whose text conforms to the manuscript we offer was published in Impressions et souvenirs Paris M. Lévy 1873. George Sand would devote another article to her son's novel in Questions d'art et de littérature in 1878. The first edition of Maurice Sand's Coq aux cheveux d'or was published by Lacroix and Verboeckhoven in 1867. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75733

‎Michel LEIRIS‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Lucienne Salacrou‎

‎Clermont-Ferrand 1975. Fine. Clermont-Ferrand 19 septembre 1975 14.70 x 10.30 cm une carte postale Autograph postcard signed by Michel Leiris and his wife Louise Godon nicknamed ""Zette"" addressed to Lucienne Salacrou wife of the writer Armand Salacrou. Thirteen lines 10 in Zette's hand and 3 in Michel's written in blue ballpoint pen on the back of a black and white view of the Apses of Clermont-Ferrand. A small tear to the upper margin of the recto not serious. Michel Leiris made the acquaintance of the Salacrou couple at the Kahnweiler gallery. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75094

‎Roger CAILLOIS‎

‎Lettre autographe signée adressée à Arnost Budik‎

‎Paris 1972. Fine. Paris 25 juin 1972 21 x 27 cm une page sur un feuillet enveloppe jointe Autograph letter signed by Roger Caillois addressed to Arnost Budik; one page written in black ink on a sheet of tissue paper. Envelope included. Some punch holes in the margin of the letter and envelope not affecting the text as well as some folds inherent to the folding of the missive. Roger Caillois thanks the Czech writer for the ""issues of Gravida that he was kind enough to send him"". Arnost Budik was indeed part of the editorial committee of this Belgian surrealist magazine and seems to have solicited a contribution from Caillois: ""Please find enclosed a text that I have just completed."" Caillois was alongside the surrealists only very briefly from 1932 to 1935 and here seems to apologize for this distancing: ""Surrealism never much appreciated descriptive-meditative poetry where I believed later to find my path. So if the text does not suit you have no qualms about returning it to me quite simply. I would understand very well."" unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75103

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de Robert de Montesquiou priant son correspondant journaliste de faire la chronique dans le Gaulois du dernier ouvrage qu'il lui a adressé‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. 1890. Fine. S. n. s. l. • Paris s. d. circa 1890 23 x 18 cm deux pages sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by the dandy count two pages 27 lines written in black ink to Henri Lapauze then journalist at Le Gaulois asking him after receiving his latest published work which he sent him to write a favorable article about him: "". I am sending you my new volume asking you to announce it with your usual good grace. I furthermore desire that the subsequent and detailed review of it be written by you for the readers of Le Gaulois."" Robert de Montesquiou also requests from Henri Lapauze a meeting when he returns to Paris: ""I will ask you for a brief meeting and we can chat for a moment."" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum and whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74257

‎Max JACOB‎

‎"Un de nos amis explose des tableaux 76 Fg St Honoré galerie Charpentier le 4 avril."" • Unpublished signed autograph letter addressed to Fernand Pouey‎

‎Paris 1935. Fine. Paris 31 mars 1935 21 x 27 cm une page sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed by Max Jacob addressed to Fernand Pouey. One page written in black ink on a sheet. Two transverse folds inherent to mailing. Remarkable letter in which Max Jacob asks a strange favor of his friend: ""Un de nos amis explose sic des tableaux 76 Fg St Honoré galerie Charpentier le 4 avril. J'ai des obligations à son endroit et je voudrais lui montrer des sentiments d'ailleurs plus ou moins sincères. Tu peux certainement signaler au critique d'art de la maison cette peinture sûrement honorable."" ""One of our friends is exploding sic paintings 76 Fg St Honoré galerie Charpentier on April 4th. I have obligations toward him and I would like to show him feelings that are more or less sincere. You can certainly point out to the house art critic this surely honorable painting."" The mysterious ""friend"" mentioned in this letter could be the painter Balthus who exhibited at the Galerie Charpentier in early April 1935. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75865

‎Sandra CALDER‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Juan Luis Buñuel ; ""La paix ! la paix ! la paix !"" • Handwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Bunuel‎

‎1967. Fine. s. d. ca 1967 15.70 x 10.80 cm une carte postale Handwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Buñuel s.dca 1967 15.7 x 10.8 cm a postcard Handwritten postcard signed by Alexander Calder addressed to Juan Luis Buñuel on the back of a reproduction of a painting by Georges de La Tour. Two small perforations in the left margin of the card as is usual in Juan Luis Buñuel's collection. ""La paix ! la paix ! la paix ! pour 1968 Vanvis - I don't understand why I'm always leaving messages and never getting an answer. I was sorry not to see you in Barcelone. It is a beautiful snow. Love to you and Carmen and children. Sandro"" In 1939 Luis Buñuel who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood decided with his wife and child to leave the chaotic situation in Europe to go and live the American Dream. The penniless Buñuels initially spent a few precarious months living in New York. Luis Buñuel found himself forced to ask Dali—his longstanding friend in exile along with Gala during these years—to lend him some money. His request was refused in no uncertain terms putting an end to the two men's friendship. Thus it was Calder whom Luis had perhaps already met in Paris in the 1920s who put the whole family up in his Upper Side apartment. Juan Luis Buñuel the artist's godson sensed that his interest in sculpture began in this same period: “When Dali told my father he would not lend him any money he contacted him Calder. He offered his house to us and we lived with his family for a time. I can only vaguely remember it but it was then that I started to become interested in sculpture and he encouraged me” Anton Casto Juan Luis una entrevista. Despite the geographical distance that would come to separate them Alexander Calder would remain a friend of the Buñuel family. The relationship between the artist and the film-maker is however almost entirely absent from the biographies and this correspondence is a rare testimony to the profound connection between the sculptor and the Buñuel family. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75789

‎COLETTE‎

‎"Voilà La Cigale qui me réclame demain soir."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel‎

‎Marseille 1920. Fine. Marseille s. d. circa 1920 19.80 x 25.20 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel nine lines written in black ink. Some folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter. ""And then damn it enough already. Here La Cigale is calling me for tomorrow evening and I haven't stolen it since I accepted and even asked to do the café-concert criticism on the same level as the other."" unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75260

‎Andre BRETON‎

‎Manuscrit autographe signé intitulé ""3² 4² = 5²""‎

‎1953. Fine. mai 1953 21 x 27 cm une feuille André Breton autograph manuscript signed ""A.B."" entitled ""3² 4² = 5²"" written for issue no. 7 of May 1953 of the review Médium. 18 lines written in black ink in careful handwriting on a white sheet. Two transverse folds of no significance. This is the final version of the text; an intermediate version of this article can be seen on the Breton Archives website. An interesting chronicle on Paul Sérant's work devoted to René Guénon and his work published by éditions La Colombe: ""Of this work one of the most considerable of our time M. Paul Sérant offers a penetrating study."" unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75169

‎Robert de MONTESQUIOU‎

‎"""Etre fidèle ou infidèle dans ses promesses lequel vaut mieux "" • Vehement autograph letter dated and signed by Robert de Montesquiou to a dear friend Henry Lapauze protesting against his breach of his word‎

‎s. l.: S. n. 1911. Fine. S. n. s. l. 9 Juin 1911 13.50 x 21 cm quatre pages sur deux feuilles Remarkable autograph letter dated and signed by the dandy count four pages on two large sheets 16 lines written in black ink to his ""dear friend"" Henri Lapauze denouncing his failure to keep his word and provoking the poet's epistolary ire. Henry Lapauze was to celebrate Robert de Montesquiou in a tribute book regarding the latter and to his great chagrin he forgot him thus stinging his impulsive pride: "". it is not to recriminate even less to complain - both incompatible with pride - but to record what compensates for misunderstandings."" and additional affront to the dandy-poet's pride : "". you spoke. only of Lavedan !"" while double and supreme betrayal Robert de Montesquiou honored his promise by dedicating his latest work to him: ""At the very moment when I was inscribing for you the dedication promised by me I received the fascicle where the comments promised by you were to be expressed for the book that pays tribute to me."" The poet and writer Robert de Montesquiou would be very grateful to him: "". the poet and friend who both in one thank you affectionately in advance."" Henry Lapauze 1867-1925 was a journalist art critic then in 1905 curator of the Petit Palais converted four years earlier into a museum whose collections he considerably enriched by acquiring notably the Courbet Henner Falguière collections with at the twilight of his life a marked predilection for the Decorative Arts of which he was one of the ardent promoters. S. n. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74273

‎Sandra CALDER‎

‎Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Juan Luis Buñuel • Handwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Bunuel‎

‎1967. Fine. s. d. ca 1967 15.70 x 10.80 cm une carte postale Handwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Buñuel s.dca 1967 15.7 x 10.8 cm a postcard Handwritten postcard signed by Alexander Calder addressed to Juan Luis Buñuel on the back of a reproduction of his work On the High Wire. Two small perforations in the upper margin of the card as is usual in Juan Luis Buñuel's collection. ”What an incredible face Luis had I was glad to see “Belle de Jour” for the first time.” In 1939 Luis Buñuel who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood decided with his wife and child to leave the chaotic situation in Europe to go and live the American Dream. The penniless Buñuels initially spent a few precarious months living in New York. Luis Buñuel found himself forced to ask Dali—his longstanding friend in exile along with Gala during these years—to lend him some money. His request was refused in no uncertain terms putting an end to the two men's friendship. Thus it was Calder whom Luis had perhaps already met in Paris in the 1920s who put the whole family up in his Upper Side apartment. Juan Luis Buñuel the artist's godson sensed that his interest in sculpture began in this same period: “When Dali told my father he would not lend him any money he contacted him Calder. He offered his house to us and we lived with his family for a time. I can only vaguely remember it but it was then that I started to become interested in sculpture and he encouraged me” Anton Casto Juan Luis una entrevista. Despite the geographical distance that would come to separate them Alexander Calder would remain a friend of the Buñuel family. The relationship between the artist and the film-maker is however almost entirely absent from the biographies and this correspondence is a rare testimony to the profound connection between the sculptor and the Buñuel family. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 75396