Lot n° 9
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 640EUR
Eugène Paul dit GEN-PAUL (1895-1975). 6 L.A.S.... - Lot 9 - Ader
Eugène Paul dit GEN-PAUL (1895-1975). 6 L.A.S. of which one with a drawing and 6 drawings, 1956-1969, to Jean Berbérian; 22 pages in-4 or in-fol., plus 6 cards (postcards or greetings), 5 envelopes.
Beautiful friendly correspondence with drawings.
Paris January 1956. Greetings letter, with a drawing of a beautiful bouquet that takes up the whole page. He often thinks of them, even if he has no news of them: are they still in Boston? He works a lot, and kisses them... [January 1962]. Greetings: 2 drawings with colored pencils, bouquet offered "To my buddy Berberian"... [August 19, 1962], postcard from Biarritz, announcing his coming to Paris... Paris September 5, 1962. "My pal [...] I see that you are well organized in your galonnage [....] As for mezigue, a trip to Geneva! [...] Here the trêpe radine, the hustle. The mildness of August is over. Moreover it floats. The ground is heavy. As if it were the joy of the military"... Geneva, October 17, 1963. He was bored in Geneva: "It's not my style. You have to be a native to take it. - For the nightlife, lapuche [...] as for the converse, a little heavy"... [9 January 1964]. Sending the cover of Paris Match, special issue with Paul VI on the cover, to which he drew sunglasses, and curly hair. He wrote next to it: "BER I"... On a separate page, drawing: portrait of his friend with colored pencils, on the nose of which he stuck glasses in the shape of a heart cut out of a magazine, and accompanied by this slogan: "The irresistible The heart-shaped glasses, big success guaranteed"...
1965. Limoux May 21. He can finally "move his hand" and takes the opportunity to write to her. He goes for an X-ray and has "a masseur" who comes to see him, "it's really painful". He starts to recover some movements, and takes advantage of it to "make the cure. Rest, diet". He does not complain about his hospitalization, he is the "big loser of the social security all the advantages of the organized prolo. The big game. [...] Long live social security and the fracture of the humerus". He receives all kinds of aid: "a real nougat"... June 9. He received news from the "Berber friends", very gray and sad: "real misery. It is necessary that the recumbent lifts your morale. He followed his rehabilitation, but his shoulder was still ankylosed and it would take a long time. He practiced going down and up the stairs, asked for news of the children, especially of Michel [the future artist Michel Berbérian, his student]... June 25. "So the whole family of Boulogne sur Seine is letting the martyr of Limoux down? He is going to leave the clinic to continue his re-education: "it's really painful"...
A job advertisement cut out from a newspaper was sent to him: "Jean, I have made inquiries, you have your chances. The bald applicants are eliminated"... Press clipping with a photo of a parachutist, framed and colored with grease pencil, on which he noted: "Papa Berberian". Drawing of a map of France in blue grease pencil, colored in pink in which he noted: "The Duke of the TOUR", signed Gen-Paul... Drawing in grease pencil of a rose, signed GP, on which he noted: "Gritiche, Bonsoir"... Plus cards (postcards, greetings, etc.), 1966-1969, of which 2 with reproductions of paintings of Gen-Paul, and lithograph of the pink and blue bouquet (1962).
2 autograph drafts are attached, one of them about Celine, in answer to a detractor: "It would never have occurred to me to call you an informer without knowing you". His correspondent called him a "collabo because he was a friend of Céline. [...] He paid. My spiritual relationship with him had nothing to do with his ideas. [...] As for hatred for me, it is too tiring. Marcel Aymé was put in the same basket. Céline judged paid, he died, but his work remains. Apart from his ideas, the friend was of value and very frequent"...
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