Jean AJALBERT (1863-1947). L.S. and L.A.S.,... - Lot 105 - Ader

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Jean AJALBERT (1863-1947). L.S. and L.A.S.,... - Lot 105 - Ader
Jean AJALBERT (1863-1947). L.S. and L.A.S., Laubade par Sorbets September 1930, to Louis Anquetin; 13 pages in-8, vignettes and letterhead, envelope. About the orders of tapestries by the Manufacture de Beauvais to Anquetin. [Beauvais (of which Ajalbert was the director) had ordered to Anquetin a series of four tapestries, inspired by the Great War, of which he could realize only the first two cartoons: Le Départ ou la Mobilisation (delivered in January 1926) and Le Retour (delivered in September 1919)] September 8. Ajalbert answers point by point to Anquetin's recriminations. "As a thank you, I'd like to be yelled at. I am used to it. When I came to you, in 1917, that after many efforts, finally, I obtained the order, I see myself climbing your stairs. You had not done anything for a long time. I was hoping for a flash of joy. All the thanks I got was, "Oh, the bastards, it took them a long time to make up their minds. That was it. No doubt, you don't owe the State any gratitude. But I thought I had obliged you. And, even if I was wrong, you could not make me feel it so strongly. I swallowed my sensitivity and gave myself completely to the realization of your work. If it remains incomplete, with two panels - and if you did not make the four, is it my fault? How many useless steps to try to put the brush back in your hand"... Etc. - September 25. After new and long explanations, Ajalbert concludes: "In the end, please tell me that this discussion would not be able to affect our friendship. If there were not admiration and friendship on my part, I would not have been moved by your complaints which were painful to me, treating me like a negligent, forgetful bureaucrat, or of bad faith!"... An autograph draft of Anquetin's answer to the first letter is attached (3 p. in-fol. in pencil), answering to the reproaches of Ajalbert: "And on top of that you accuse me of being a proud man, a man of money - and of having made you cash in my bad mood for twelve years" ....
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