Lot n° 266
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400 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 512EUR
Max JACOB (1876-1944). 2 L.A.S., Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 1927 - Lot 266
Max JACOB (1876-1944). 2 L.A.S., Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 1927-1928, [to his friend Adolphe Aynaud, in Lille]; 2 pages small in-4 each.
To the collector from Lille to whom Jacob sells gouaches and gives advice [Aynaud was also a client of the ceramist Giovanni Leonardi (1876-1957), a friend of Jacob's who asks about him in these letters
]18 April 1927. He announces the publication by Crès of "a beautiful book by me: the re-edition of a small book from 1911: La Côte which was a collection of supposed old Breton poems with false erudition, false preface, all well enough to be remembered fifteen years later. I had made for this edition fifteen gouaches which were meticulously reproduced. Now I have a copy of this volume on Japon Impérial which is worth 1500f in bookshops today and which will be worth much more soon. My copy bears the n° 1 printed specially with my name. I put an unpublished prose poem in the Haikai genre; I will put a dedication in my hand with my signature. It will be worth even more, and I will only sell it to you for 1500f, if you feel like it. It is presented in a convenient and pretty cardboard box "... - September 14, 1928. He has been running so much in the last two years that he can only imagine himself "in slippers", but he will accept his hospitality with joy: "You are one of those to whom one thinks and to whom one does not have the idea of writing because they are present at the thought: Picasso and I, who have not left each other for twenty years, never write to each other, not even on New Year's Day. Moreover, I was unaware of Dom Chauvin's lecture, and I hear so often about St Benedict and even by Dom Chauvin that I wouldn't have bothered for that. [...] You speak to me of the Tableau de la Bourgeoisie. This summer I did nine illustrations of it. The whole thing is in the terrible hands of Gallimard. I should have started a novel too. The first line is still in the inkwell. I only hope for the publication of a small volume o
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