André DERAIN (1880-1954). Signed autograph manuscript, Homma - Lot 40

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André DERAIN (1880-1954). Signed autograph manuscript, Homma - Lot 40
André DERAIN (1880-1954). Signed autograph manuscript, Hommage à Jacques-Émile Blanche, splendid painter and admirable critic; 9 infol. pages, with erasures and corrections. An amusing article against Jacques-Émile Blanche, a fake homage built on irony, published in the magazine Signaux de Belgique et de France in September 1921 . It takes a lot of courage to pay homage to "a rich, decorated, official man who portrays modern high society (presidents, marshals, barons, geniuses, etc.) and who is a great man of the world. It takes courage to pay tribute to "an official, rich, decorated man, who portrays modern high society (presidents, marshals, barons, geniuses, etc.) with maëstria and a fine profession, and who adds to this already enormous "art of writing" on a weekly basis, [...] articles in which he rather harshly admonishes young men or mature men who are neither decorated, who do not make portraits, who have neither official status nor reputation". Derain was pleased that the illiterate painters of the past had disappeared, and that J.-E. Blanche noted "the low esteem in which painters were usually held about the Letters...". He praises the culture of this man so refined, so erudite, defender of the French language and French art, but also testifies to the "blissful admiration" he feels for his painting, with three examples: the pharmacy on rue Monceau, where "the drama is at its height and nothing escapes the acute eye of the painter. One can situate such genius between Michelangelo and Jean Béraud"; his Portrait of a Scientist, "astounding not his audacity, the leg in the air being in the air being as perilous an exercise for the painter as for the model", between Olivier Merson and Rembrandt; and the Still Life with Onions ... As for his written style, he remembers a former maid, admiring and convinced that Jacques Blanche was a woman, so feminine, delicate and refined was her style; he was able to confirm the opposite to h
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