Paul VALÉRY (1871-1945). Original drawing signed with autogr - Lot 51

Paul VALÉRY (1871-1945). Original drawing signed with autograph inscription; pen and brown ink wash, 6.5x6cm on a small in-4 page (19x14.5cm). Vignette for the letterhead of his friend Julien Pierre Monod. It depicts Monod, seated in front of his library, reading a book; the drawing is signed "P. Valéry"; at top right, Valéry has inscribed his friend's initials and address: "J.P.M. 16 Boulevard Raspail". At bottom right, Julien Pierre Monod's ideogrammatic stamp in red ink. [Julien Pierre Monod (1879-1963), banker and bibliophile, was a close friend of Paul Valéry, for whom he occasionally served as secretary; he assembled an important collection dedicated to Valéry, the "Valerianum", now in the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet]. Enclosed is a sheet of stationery based on Valéry's model (1p. in-4).