[DELACROIX] DEGAS, Edgar (1834-1917)
Autograph letter signed « Degas » to collector Montagnac
Np, 27 June [18]95, 2 pages in-8°
« I pay you as follow: three pastels from me »
Autograph letter signed « Degas » to collector Montagnac
Np, 27 June [18]95, 2 pages in-8°
« I pay you as follow: three pastels from me »
Autograph letter signed « G.S. » to Eugène Delacroix
[Paris] Postal mark [23rd December 1841], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I saw your femmes d’Alger »
Autograph letter signed « GS » to Eugène Delacroix
[Paris, c. 1842], 1 p. in-8, autograph address on verso « Delacroix »
« If you can come and dine with us at Mrs. Marliani’s… »
Two autograph letters signed « GS » to Eugène Delacroix
[Nohant, 6 & 7 July 1842], 3 p. in-8° in total
« I dreamed of you all night »
Autograph manuscript signed « Léon Daudet »
N.p.n.d [Paris, June 1932], 4 pp. large in-4°
« Manet is the beauty of colour, the celebration of the decomposition of light through the prism »
Autograph letter signed « Maurice Denis » to Claude Monet
[Saint-Germain-en-Laye], 27 Dec. 1925, 3 p. in-8°
« The painters recognize the immense value of your work – especially your latest masterpiece »
Period albumen print
[Liège, c. July 1893], cabinet format
Precious unpublished portrait of the artist
Letter signed « Aug. Rodin » to bookseller-gallery owner Louis Soullié
[Paris], 30 July 1904, 2 p. in-8° in black ink on beige stationary
« I continue to believe that the three paintings you sold me — by Whistler, Gauguin, and Van Gogh — are not authentic »
Autograph letter signed « Ambrogiani », enriched with six self-portraits
Marseille, 18th Feb. [before 1950], 2 p. in-4°
« Entre deux voyages pour neutraliser les effets de l’acide je bois du Pastis »
Autograph letter signed « Ambrogiani Pierre » [to a journalist]
Alès, 26 Jan. [19]54, 2 pp. in-4°
« I’m preparing an exhibition in Paris for February… »
Autograph letter signed « FBazille » to his mother
[Paris], 1st Dec. 1862, 4 pp. in-8° on laid paper
« I’m going back to the studio until three or four o’clock. From there, I’m going to anatomy class »
Autograph letter signed « HB » to Joë Bousquet
Revel, Tuesday 11 Sept. 1945, 1 p. in-4° on pink paper
« I write like an articulated doll »
Autograph letter signed « Ant Bourdelle » [to André Fontainas]
Paris, November 1928 [in reality 25th December], 4 pp. in-4°
« The two Beethoven »
6 autograph letters signed, all adressed to Variétés journal
Carcassonne, 1946-1947, 21 pages in-8
« Only the future could give the value of the link I want to see between color and its cosmic reality »
Autograph letter signed « Georges Braque », to Daniel Wallard
N.p, 19th Feb. [1944], 4 p. in-12°
« I’m going to get back to work now — I have a burning desire to »
Autograph letter signed « G Caillebotte » to Claude Monet
N.p.n.d, Friday [Petit-Gennevilliers, after 1887 ?], 3 pp. in-8°
« I have covered a lot of canvases and wasted a lot of colour »
Autograph letter signed « Mary Cassatt » to Achille Segard
Villa Angeletto – Grasse, 14th April [1913], 6 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« And then I wanted to be such a great painter, Titian or Rembrandt, just that… »
Autograph letter signed “Thre Chasseriau” to M. Lanthy
Wednesday at noon [14 September 1853], 1 p. in-8 with autograph address
“I am very embarrassed at the moment”
Original drawings and autograph poem
N.p.n.d [c. 1935], 1 p. in-8° (16 x 20,5 cm)
« I empty my evil »
Original silver print enriched with a signed autograph inscription
[Portlligat, 1977], 13,8 x 14,4 cm
Nice print depicting Dalí in conversation, doubly autographed by him and enriched with an original drawing
Period film print
[Portlligat, c. 1977] 27,3 x 19 cm
Spectacular signature of the artist on a print representing one of his most emblematic works
Autograph letter signed « E Delacroix » to a unknown recipient
[Paris, 6 rue de Fürstenberg], 15 July 1863
« I am keeping the room and unable to get out »
Autograph letter signed « A Derain » to his friend Philbert
“Hénin I-i et ard” [Hénin-Liétard], 18 Oct. 1902, 4 pages, small in-8°
« You might perhaps fuck the woman of your dreams, the blonde, the brunette, or the redhead »
Autograph letter signed « A Derain » to a gallerist
Lisieux, 31st May 1915, 1 p. in-4° on graph paper
« Since the war I have been very abandoned by the painting world, I even wonder if I will ever do paint again »
Period albumen print
[Paris], after 1866, cdv format (5,6 x 9 cm)
Elegant portrait of the artist, with autograph dedications on both sides of the mounting
Original drawing titled « Poesia »
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8° on double folio
Touching drawing of the poet soberly titled « Poesia »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to a collector
[Paris, 1st or 2nd Nov. 1893], 1 p. 1/2 in-12°
« The exhibition will be launched on the 9th »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to Daniel de Monfreid
[Tahiti], November 1895, 3 p. 1/4 in-4°
« Every night frenzied girls invade my bed; yesterday I had three to function »
Autograph letter signed « Alberto Giacometti » to David Thompson
Paris, 2th August 1956, 3 p. in-8°
« Because of sculpture I am forced to neglect painting »
Autograph postcard signed « Juan Gris » to André Level
[Loches, 2 Oct. 1916], 1 p. in-8°
« I try to do the landscapes well but it seems bad to me »
Autograph postcard signed « Hélion » to Raymond Queneau
Rockbridge baths, Virginia, USA, 8 August 1936, 1 p. in-12°
« Europe, seen from afar, is incomprehensible, sickly, and tragic »
Autograph letter signed « Ingres » to M. Beroggi
N.d.n.p, Saturday, 1 p. in-12°
« Our modest dinner next Monday, with too unworthy accompaniment of a Haydn Sonata »
Autograph manuscript
N.p., [c. 1881], 1 p. small in-8°
« The Rubens figures — robust people, solidly shaped, immortally fresh… the Rembrandts — sickly, leprosy-obsessed maniacs »
Two autograph letters signed « Max » to his mother Suzanne Baron
N.p.n.d. [summer-fall 1925], 3 p. 1/4 in-4° all together, in blue ink
« I often wonder why I am part of this world, for my life is made of continual suffering »
Autograph letter signed « Magritte » [to Charles Henri Ford]
Jette-Bruxelles, 30 Nov. 1945, 2 p. in-4° on lined paper
« I take as the criterion for defining ‘surrealist’ the moral attitude defined by Breton in his Second Manifesto »
Autograph letter signed « Ton oncle Maillol » to his nephew Gaspard Maillol
Banyuls-sur-Mer, 8 J[anuary] [19]18, 4 pp. in-8°
« Until the last minute I was, so to speak, overwhelmed with work »
Autograph card signed « Edouard Manet » to Eva Gonzalès
N.p.n.d., 1 p. in-24
« I have to go to a funeral and won’t be able to go to the studio »
Autograph letter signed « Joan » to Maria [San Lazzaro]
Folgarolas 9, Barcelona, 23rd December 1955, 1 p. in-4°
« I was awfully busy preparing my next exhibition »
Autograph letter signed « Adrien » to Alcide-Joseph Lorentz
[Paris], 6 January 1858, 1 p. in-8 à with embossed letterhead
« I have urgent matter to deal with… »
Autograph card signed « Nadar » to [Henri ?] Cazalis
Draveil, 12 January [18]93, 1 p. small in-8°
« My poor afflicted one and I send our warmest regards with our best wishes.… »
Autograph letter signed « Nadar » to Ernest Vaughan from journal L’Aurore
Marseille, 26 8bre [October] [18]99, 2 p. in-12°
« And then I no longer see Clemenceau in my Aurore »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, « le 24.[0]6.[19]59 », 1 p. in-8° in oil pastel
« You just left this morning and already I’m bothering you again »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, « 13.[0]5.[19]59 », 1 p. in-4°
« A thousand greetings from both of us for both of you»
Autograph letter signed « votre Picasso » to Max Pellequer
« La Californie », Cannes, 22 August 1956, 1 p. in-4° in colored oil pastels
« Sending my love to you »
Autograph letter signed « Your Picasso » to Max Pellequer
« La Californie », Cannes, 6 Oct. 1956, 1 p. in-4° in colored oil pastels
« We are all very sad together. We love you »
Autograph letter signed « C. Pissarro » to Théo Van Rysselberghe
[Bruges, Hôtel du] Singe d’Or, 3rd July [18]94, 2 p. in-8°
« I still have in my ear the sound of the waves and the color of the sea in my eye, you must have had beautiful effects last night »
Autograph letter signed « C. Pissarro » to Noël Clément-Janin
Paris, 19th Feb[ruary] 1892, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°, with envelope
« Turner, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Jongkind, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Guillaumin, Sisley, Seurat ! This is our march. »
Autograph letter signed « F Pompon » to René Horvilleur
Paris, 25 March [19]26, 1 p. in-8° in black ink on lined paper
« You will receive the bear today by express delivery »
Autograph letter signed « F Pompon » to his friend Fabre
Paris, 19 Dec. [19]32, 1 p. in-4°
« My joy is at its peak »
Autograph carte-de-visite
N.p.n.d., [Paris, late 1920s], 1 p. in-24°
« Deeply touched by your congratulations »
Autograph letter signed « Fély » to Octave Uzanne
[Paris, c. 1890], 1 p. in-12
« Since this morning, I have met three Jews with otter necks whom my grandfather had had beaten fifty years ago »
Autograph letter signed « Félicien Rops » to a gentleman
Paris, 28th May [1891 ?], 3 p. in-8°
« All of them: Sculptors, poets, musicians, painters, apart from a score of ‘brain-seeing’ people are a band of Monkeys and lemurs who should be taken away gently… and shot »
Autograph letter signed « Sempé » to Gérard Leman
Paris, 15th January [19]68, 1 p. in-4° with autograph envelope
« I work so slowly… »
Autograph letter signed « P.S. » to Henry van de Velde
N.p.n.d (c. 1911-1912), 1 p. 1/2 in -8°
« Since the death of my dear mother, I have deferred to those who, like her, never do me so much good »
Autograph letter signed « Your boy H » to his mother Adèle Zoë Tapié de Céleyran
[Villiers-sur-Morin, fall 1886], 4 p. in-12
« I fly from ladder to ladder »
Original drawings. Ink on paper [Dog and cat]
N.p.n.d [c. 1876-1880], 1 p. in-4° in black ink
Charming drawings by young Toulouse-Lautrec