[Frédéric BAZILLE (1841–1870)]. Marc BAZILLE (1845–1923), Fr - Lot 209

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[Frédéric BAZILLE (1841–1870)]. Marc BAZILLE (1845–1923), Fr - Lot 209
[Frédéric BAZILLE (1841–1870)]. Marc BAZILLE (1845–1923), Frédéric’s brother. Autograph letter, Montpellier, October 24, 1923, [to Arsène Alexandre?]; 5 pages, in-8 format. On the works of his brother Frédéric Bazille. He thanks his friend for intervening with Léonce Bénédite regarding the transfer of Bazille’s painting *La Terrasse* from the Musée du Luxembourg to the Grand Palais. He discusses the fate of his brother’s correspondence, in which he finds mention of a painting created in 1868, “the portrait of his great friend Edmond Maître, who, like him, had long been passionate about music”; he quotes the description given in a letter from the Maître family, who had recently sold him the painting depicting “a Black woman holding a fan adorned with bouquets of various flowers.” He cites letters that attest to German artists’ interest in Bazille, “regarded as one of the foremost, if not the foremost, pioneers of the plein air technique.” He suggests “placing the small photograph of my brother by Carjat in a small frame beneath the painting *La Terrasse*,” which he will give to Bénédite after the exhibition…
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