[Ricciotto CANUDO (1877-1923)]. Dossier on the project for a - Lot 156

[Ricciotto CANUDO (1877-1923)]. Dossier on the project for a Gallery of New Writers, Painters, Sculptors and Musicians, 1914. Approximately 100 letters and manuscripts (many on Montjoie letterhead!; edges a little frayed on a few letters). Important unpublished collection on this aborted project, prepared by Canudo, director of the magazine Montjoie! with the help of the poet and novelist Pierre Corrard (1877-1914), who was its patron and financed the publication; his death at the front on November 26, 1914 put an end to the adventure, as did Canudo's enlistment in the Légion étrangère. - Title page in blue pencil, subtitled "Etudes sur le Présent"; and plan of the book (with estimate from the printer Greningaire). - Lists of artists solicited: Plastic Arts, Music, Literature; and "Clichés à donner par M. Canudo" (8 p.). Ricciotto Canudo. - 11 L.A.S. to Pierre Corrard, 1910-1914, mainly concerning their Gallery project, and the artists involved (and purchase of plates and drawings): Van Dongen, Rodin, Picasso... - 5 P.A.S., receipts for sales to P. Corrard of drawings and prints (Marval, Rodin, Van Dongen, Delaunay), April-July 1914. Manuscripts. 8 signed autograph manuscripts (and one typescript). - Adolphe BASLER, La sculpture moderne (15p. small in-4). - Ricciotto CANUDO, Initiation à l'Art Contemporain (18p. in-4). - Raymond DUCHAMP-VILLON, Architecture (15p. in-8). - Paul FOLLOT, Réflexions sur la situation présente de l'Art Décoratif (typescript signed with corrections, 5p. in-4). - René GILLOUIN, De la Philosophie moderne (4p. in-fol.). - Jean MULLER, La Prose (10p. in-4). - Jacques REBOUL, La Culture et l'Esprit de l'Art (10p. in-8). - Gaston SAUVEBOIS, La Jeune Critique (8p. in-fol.). - Jacques VILLON, Les arts graphiques (7p. in-fol.). Collective letter signed by 9 artists, July 1914, written by Canudo, and signed (with their addresses) by Alice Bailly, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jules Flandrin, Albert Gleizes, Roger de La Fresnaye, Jacqueline Marval, Jacques Villon. They give Pierre Corrard "exclusive permission to publish the woodblock, etching, litho, drypoint and stencil in the galerie des écrivains, peintres, sculpteurs et musiciens nouveaux published under the direction of M. Canudo. Five proofs before the letter of each plate are reserved for its author" (1p. in-4 on Montjoie letterhead!). 11 letters from artists (mostly L.S., written by Canudo), April 1914, promising to donate a plate for the Galerie... or authorizing the reproduction of a work: Bolz, Chagall, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Édouard Gazanian, Valentine Gross (l.a.s.), Roger de La Fresnaye, André Lhote, Henry Ottmann. 25 P.S. by painters, authorizing the reproduction of works in the Galerie, April 1914 (typed text): Archipenko, A. Bailly, P.H. Brun, R. Duchamp-Villon, R. Dufy, E. de Fiori, A. Frost, A. Gleizes, Le Fauconnier, A. Lhote, Marcoussis (with p.a.s.), H. Matisse (with 2 lines autogr.), Metzinger, L.A. Moreau, Morgan-Russell (with 2 autogr. lines), R. Mortier, E. Nadelman (with p.a.s.), F. Picabia, J. Roche, Rossiné, V. de Saint-Point, A. D. de Segonzac, J. Villon, etc. 32 L.A.S. addressed to R. Canudo or P. Corrard, 1908-1914, by Dr. G. Ancelet, Guillaume Apollinaire ("Mon cher Canudo Je travaille à ton article ne te fâche pas. [...] I am not the author of the quatrain published about you in Lacerba"...), François de Bondy (about his article on shooting), Henry Bordeaux, Bernard Boutet de Monvel (8, about his drawings), Leonetto Cappiello (about the price of his drawings and posters), Ch. Cantacuzène, Blaise Cendrars (2: authorizes reproduction of his poem Easter; autobiographical note with bibliography), Pierre Corrard, André de Fouquières (2), Albert Gleizes (promising a copper), Édouard Guerber, Albert Guillaume (2), Gyp, Eugène Montfort, Armand Praviel, Edmond Sée, Henri Strentz, Robert Vallery-Radot, Meg Villars, Willy, etc. Plus a mimeographed note signed by H. de Noussanne concerning the newspaper Gil Blas (1911), a L.A.S of condolence from Charles Despiau on the death of Albert Pommier (1944)...