[MANET] DAUDET, Léon (1867-1942)
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 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 « Théophile Gautier » to Louis Fourcaud
[Paris], 17th Jan[uary] 1886, 1 p. in-8°
« Saint-Saëns and Massenet will be nothing more than fading shadows »
Autograph letter signed “JKHuysmans” to a colleague
N.d [1885], Paris, 1p 1/2 in-12 on laid paper
“Readers who generally prefer Mr Ohnet’s products to the pages of Flaubert and Goncourt”
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Robert de Billy
[Paris, second half of July, 1907] 5 pages in-8°
“But isn’t it enough that you are the appearance to rejoice a heart that flees from the truth?”
Autograph letter signed « Ernest Psichari » to Maurice Reclus
Paris, 11th June 1902, 8 p. in-folio
« My only intention was, I swear, to couple words adrift, with harmony and rarity, as much as possible »
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 »