Jean BALTUS (1880–1946). Autograph letter on the reverse and - Lot 208

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Jean BALTUS (1880–1946). Autograph letter on the reverse and - Lot 208
Jean BALTUS (1880–1946). Autograph letter on the reverse and signed autograph manuscript, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 29, 1936, and undated, [to Philippe Diolé, editor of the magazine *Beaux-Arts*]; 1½ pages, in-4 (with his business card attached), and 1¼ pages, in-4. At the request of his friend Auguste Chabaud, he had the portrait he owned of Pierre Chatelet photographed by himself: “I have other paintings by Chatelet, who was a friend of mine”… [This self-portrait by the Avignon painter Pierre Chatelet (1876–1936), who had recently passed away, was intended to illustrate the tribute paid to him by Auguste Chabaud in the October 2, 1936, issue of *Beaux-Arts*.] Although he still had his Paris studio on Rue Guénégaud, he spent most of the year in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, “believing that a landscape painter must study all the seasons. “I no longer go to Paris—it’s as if I were on leave.” He submitted his text for “the survey on ‘the Craft,’”—to which his friend Albert Gleizes also offered to contribute… “The craft—that is to say, the labor-intensive and meticulous aspect of painting, which must be distinguished from aesthetics—is one of the most solid foundations of this art.” He cites Turner, Van Gogh, and “the Impressionists, who painted haphazardly,” before concluding: “The Salons are full of painters who know their craft, but who sometimes use it for vulgar or foolish purposes, due to a lack of the taste fostered by culture.”
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