Kees VAN DONGEN (1877-1968). 2 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S., [1924]-1960 and n.d.; on 3 pages in-4 or in-8. Paris [shortly before October 27, 1924]. Answer to a survey on Anatole France: "If the work of France has or will have an influence from a literary point of view? But ask Calmann-Lévy. To call France a Master is obviously as ridiculous as his little name Anatole. ...] Your second question is quite right for France who has told me, on several occasions, that there are some very silly people...". Monday, to François Crucy. "We have already removed from the rubble of the party several garters, a shoe with ribbons, fuss, a hat with the inscription "medico delle donne", a dead dog, a shirt or trouser in-between, a cubist's head and torso, and we have just found a key. Would you be so kind as to place an advertisement in your newspaper to warn the owner of this key ? Monaco December 30, 1960. He authorized the Deauville Tourist Office "to reproduce my painting Le Bar du soleil for the publication of a poster for the centenary of Deauville", the Giraudon studio in Paris "to photograph: Anita, a painting featured in the exhibition Les sources du XXe s.", and the bookshop Hachette to reproduce in Le Monde de M. Proust "the three drawings of which you sent us reproductions"...