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Bid on the lot list Drouot Estimations : 10 November 2022 - 53 • 500 ans de lettres et manuscrits autographes • Beaux-Arts, Musique, Littérature, Histoire Expositions publiques :DROUOT RICHELIEU - 9 RUE DROUOT 75009 PARISMERCREDI 9 NOVEMBRE DE 11 HEURES A 18 HEURESJEUDI 10 NOVEMBRE DE 11 HEURES A 12 HEURES Téléphone pendant l'exposition : 01 48 00 20 04 Contact :PRESIDENT DE DROUOT ESTIMATIONS+33 (0)1 48 01 91 07<a href="mailto:pancelin@drouot.com" target="_blank">pancelin@drouot.com</a> Ordres d’achat - enchères téléphoniques :Clémence CLAUDE - 01 48 01 91 08<a href="mailto:bids@drouot.com" target="_blank">bids@drouot.com</a> Commissaires-priseurs habilités à diriger les ventes :PHILIPPE ANCELIN Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

53 - 500 years of letters and autograph manuscripts - Fine Arts, Music, Literature, History

Thursday 10 November 2022 - 14:00 (CET) - Live

Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

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53 - 500 years of letters and autograph manuscripts - Fine Arts, Music, Literature, History

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Lot n° 1

ALECHINSKY Pierre (né 1927) 3...

ALECHINSKY Pierre (né 1927) 3 L.A.S. "Pierre", Bougival 1977-1999, to Pierre DESCARGUES; 3 pages various sizes (2 on his letterhead), 2 envelopes. Friendly letters to the journalist and art critic. One joined an original print drawn on an old draft,...

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Lot n° 2

BELLMER Hans (1902-1975) L.A.S....

BELLMER Hans (1902-1975) L.A.S. "Bellmer," Revel ca. 1946, to René MAGRITTE; 2 pages in-4. Long letter in which Bellmer evokes Magritte's pamphlets "Your letter and the one that arrived at the same time from Eliane gave me immense pleasure: if I did...

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Lot n° 3

BERNARD Emile (1868-1941) 7 L.A.S....

BERNARD Emile (1868-1941) 7 L.A.S. and 2 autograph POEMS signed "Emile Bernard" or "E. Bernard", ca. 1918-1920, to his friend Joanne ROLDES (one to her mother); 19 pages in-8 or in-4, one vignette for La Rénovation esthétique (some slight cracks and...

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Lot n° 4

BONNARD Pierre (1867-1947) L.A.S....

BONNARD Pierre (1867-1947) L.A.S. "PBonnard", January 4 1905 ?, to MISIA; 4 pages in-8. Beautiful letter from the painter to Misia, who was his model and the muse of the Tout-Paris. Misia Godebska (1872-1950) was then in Spain, where she had been taken...

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Lot n° 5

BRAQUE Georges (1882-1963) Milarepa,...

BRAQUE Georges (1882-1963) Milarepa, Magician-Poet-Ermittibetan 11th century. Translation by Jacques BACOT. Etchings by Georges BRAQUE (Paris, Maeght, 1950). Small in-4 oblong Italian style (23 x 33,7 cm). Bound in precious polished wood, mounted on...

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Lot n° 6

CHAISSAC Gaston (1910-1964) 6...

CHAISSAC Gaston (1910-1964) 6 L.A.S. "gaston chaissac" or "chaissac" of which 5 with drawing, Vix (Vendée) 1959-1962, to Enzo PAGANI; plus one gouache signed; 13 pages various sizes (3 letters on school notebook sheet), in ballpoint pen or pencil. Illustrated...

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Lot n° 7

COROT Camille (1796-1875) L.A.S....

COROT Camille (1796-1875) L.A.S. "C. Corot" with 2 DRAWINGS, Paris January 29, 1855, to Charles LE ROUX; 2 pages and a half in-8 on blue paper. Beautiful letter illustrated with two pen-and-ink drawings, sketches of his last paintings. Charles LE ROUX...

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Lot n° 8

COURBET GUSTAVE (1819-1877) L.A.S....

COURBET GUSTAVE (1819-1877) L.A.S. "G. Courbet", Paris July 15 1870, to HIS PARENTS; 4 pages in-8 (ink stamp of the solicitor Fumey in Besançon). Beautiful letter written on the day of the vote by the Chambers for war against Prussia, after Courbet's...

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Lot n° 9

DUFY Raoul (1877-1953) 13 L.A.S....

DUFY Raoul (1877-1953) 13 L.A.S. " Raoul Dufy " or " Raoul ", 1936-1951 and s.d., to Marcelle OURY; 21 pages in-4 or in-8 (some small cracks in the folds). Beautiful friendly correspondence. Marcelle OURY (1894-1970), journalist and art critic, mother...

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Lot n° 10

DUNOYER de SEGONZAC André (1884-1974) 9...

DUNOYER de SEGONZAC André (1884-1974) 9 L.A.S., 1928-1973, to various; 16 pages various sizes, 2 on postcards, 3 envelopes. 5 friendly bills to Mrs. DESJARDINS, ca. 1928: "I have the greatest friendship for you who have so much love and exceptional...

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Lot n° 11

GÉRICAULT Théodore (1791-1824)...

GÉRICAULT Théodore (1791-1824) Attribué à Narcissus reflecting in the water, also known as Chloe's bath. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 20 x 16.1 cm. About 1811-1812. On the back, on the stretcher, red wax stamp of the Pierre Dubaut collection, and...

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Lot n° 12

GLEIZES Albert (1881-1953) MANUSCRIT...

GLEIZES Albert (1881-1953) MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Albert Gleizes", La Peinture et ses lois. La nouvelle conception du naturalisme, 1922; 28 leaves in-4 in autograph folder (edges frayed on some leaves). Important theoretical text. The folder...

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Lot n° 13

IMAGE L'. L'Image. Artistic...

IMAGE L'. L'Image. Artistic and literary review decorated with figures on wood appearing every month (Paris, Floury, December 1896-December 1897). Specimen and 12 issues with the covers preserved, bound in a strong volume in-4 (33,8 x 26,8 cm) : blond...

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Lot n° 14

LA FRESNAYE ROGER DE (1885-1925) 16...

LA FRESNAYE ROGER DE (1885-1925) 16 L.A.S. "Roger", of which 3 with drawings, circa 1910-1915?, to his cousin Georges de MIRÉ, at the castle of La Fresnaye near Falaise; about 60 pages in-8 and in-4, most of them in his own name, 2 envelopes (some slight...

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Lot n° 15

LAPOUJADE Roffert (1921-1993) COLLECTION...

LAPOUJADE Roffert (1921-1993) COLLECTION of 25 original DRAWINGS, accompanied by 25 signed autograph MANUSCRITS of writers, Figures vives, circa 1949; 25 vellum paper bifolios (38,5 x 33 cm) with each 3rd page showing a drawing on parchment (about 30...

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Lot n° 16

MATHIEU GEORGES (1921-2012) 21...

MATHIEU GEORGES (1921-2012) 21 L.A.S. "Georges" or "Mathieu", 1987-1992, to Miss Emmanuelle ORIHUEL; about 60 pages of various sizes, mostly in-4, including 7 cards, most of them with his motto Moult de parte and his vignette, envelopes. Beautiful loving...

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Lot n° 17

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A.S....

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A.S. "C.P.", ca. 1888-1889, to HIS WIFE JULIE; 2 pages in-8. On his eye problems. Pissarro suffered from eyes the last twenty years of his life; he was treated by Dr. Parenteau. "Lucien tells you that I have an apparatus...

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Lot n° 18

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A.S....

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A.S. "C. Pissarro", Éragny-sur-Epte July 12, 1893, to Alphonse PORTIER; 4 pages in-8 (split middle fold, small marginal cracks). About a painting falsely attributed to him. Color dealer Alphonse PORTIER (1841-1902) was...

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Lot n° 19

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A....

PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) L.A. (minute), ca. 1896, to a young painter; 2 pages in-12 in black pencil on an envelope. Refusal to take on a student. He responds frankly to the request to work under his direction: "I do not believe that it is profitable...

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Lot n° 20

RENOIR AUGUSTE (1841-1919). L.A.S....

RENOIR AUGUSTE (1841-1919). L.A.S. "Renoir," Grasse March 7, 1900, to Paul BÉRARD; 1 1/2 pages in-8, envelope (small cracks at folds). On his portrait of Paul Bérard, and his stay in Algeria. He begs him not to frame it; he will not dare write to him...

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Lot n° 21

REYNOLDS Joshua (1723-1792) peintre...

REYNOLDS Joshua (1723-1792) peintre anglais. L.A.S. "Joshua Reynolds," London 18 October 1783, to John WAMHOPE, "Writer to the Signet" in Edinburgh; 1 page in-4, addressed with red wax seal; in English. Rare letter about unpaid portraits Sir William...

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Lot n° 22

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). About...

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). About 290 L.A.S. "Rouault" or "GR", 1936-1958, to Claude ROULET in Neuchâtel; about 930 pages, various sizes (mostly in-4), envelopes. Very important unpublished artistic correspondence, or twenty years of friendship by...

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Lot n° 23

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). 13...

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). 13 L.A.S. "G. Rouault" or "Georges Rouault" (6 unsigned) and 1 L.S., 1926-1929, to Louis PORTERET; about 20 pages in various formats including 2 postcards. Correspondence to the editor of his Legendary Landscapes (1929)....

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Lot n° 24

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). Cirque...

ROUAULT GEORGES (1871-1958). Cirque de l'étoile filante (Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1938); in-folio, frontispiece, 4 ff. (first 2 blank)-168 pp.-4 ff. (the last blank), 16 plates; paperback, filled printed cover, grey cloth slipcase with title-piece on...

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Lot n° 25

SCHMIED François-Louis (1873-1941) Ruth...

SCHMIED François-Louis (1873-1941) Ruth and Boaz. Literal translation of the Semitic texts by Dr. J. C. Mardrus (Paris, chez F. L. Schmied, Peintre-Graveur et Imprimeur, 74 bis, rue Hallé, XIVe, 1930). In-folio, bound in black morocco, on the first plate,...

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Lot n° 26

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC HENRI DE (1864-1901). L.A.S....

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC HENRI DE (1864-1901). L.A.S. "Henri", château du Bosc December 1885, to his paternal grandmother, Mme Raymond-Casimir de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC; 4 pages in-8. Lovely letter to his grandmother. "I am writing to you from Château Bosc, which...

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Lot n° 27

VAN GOGH VINCENT (1853-1890). L.A.S....

VAN GOGH VINCENT (1853-1890). L.A.S. "Vincent", Saint-Rémy de Provence January 20, 1890, to Mr. and Mrs. GINOUX, Café de la Gare, in Arles; 4 pages in- 8 (a few light stains, cracks in the folds well repaired); red half-maroquin folder with flaps. Very...

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Lot n° 28

VERONESE Paolo CALIARI dit (1528-1588). L.A.S....

VERONESE Paolo CALIARI dit (1528-1588). L.A.S. "'Paolo Caliari Pittore", Venice January 5, 1578, to Marcantonio GANDINI in Treviso; 1 page in-fol., address; in Italian. Very rare letter of the Venetian painter. He addresses Marcantonio Gandini, "Molto...

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Lot n° 29

VLAMINCK MAURICE DE (1876-1958). 27...

VLAMINCK MAURICE DE (1876-1958). 27 L.A.S. "Vlaminck", Rueil-la-Gadelière 1932-1934 and n.d., to Lucien DESCAVES; 35 pages in-4 and in-8 on La Tourillière letterhead. Beautiful friendly, artistic and literary correspondence. The writer and journalist...

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Lot n° 30

NON VENU

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Lot n° 31

AURIC Georges (1899-1983). MUSICAL...

AURIC Georges (1899-1983). MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT autographed by "Georges Auric", La Pastorale, ballet, (1926); 1 title page (torn) and 461 folio pages (35.5 x 27.5 cm). Orchestral score of the music of this ballet composed for the Ballets Russes. Georges...

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Lot n° 32

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Five...

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Five early editions of Piano Sonatas. Grande Sonate pour le Clavecin, ou Fortepiano... Œuvre XXVI Op.26 (Leipzig, Music Office, ca 1802), 19 pages, quotation 118 Hoboken 136. First German edition, almost contemporary...

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Lot n° 33

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Messa...

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Messa a quattro Voci coll' accompagnamento dell' Orchestra... Drey Hymnen für vier Singstimmen mit Begleitung des Orchesters... 86s Werk (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1812); an oblong, folio-sized volume (26.5 x 35 cm)...

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Lot n° 34

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Ouverturen....

BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827). Ouverturen. Collection of five first editions, 1823-1838; 5 folio scores (32.5 x 24.5 cm) bound in one volume, antique bronze-green percaline spine binding with gilt and ornate title. First editions of five Overtures...

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Lot n° 35

BERLIOZ Hector (1803-1869). L.A.S....

BERLIOZ Hector (1803-1869). L.A.S. "Hector Berlioz" (minute), La Côte Saint-André mid-July 1824, to Jean-François LESUEUR; 2 pages folio with numerous erasures and corrections. Beautiful draft from the young Berlioz to his master Lesueur, expressing...

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Lot n° 36

BERLIOZ Hector (1803-1869). L.A.S....

BERLIOZ Hector (1803-1869). L.A.S. "H. Berlioz", 17 May 1845, to Alfred de VIGNY; 2 1/4 pages in-8. Very beautiful letter congratulating Vigny on his election to the Académie française. The beginning of the letter evokes the evening of May 13 for the...

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Lot n° 37

BRAHMS Johannes (1833-1897). Sonate......

BRAHMS Johannes (1833-1897). Sonate... für das Pianoforte, Op. 1, 2, and 5 (Leipzig, 1853-1854; 3 engraved scores; fol. First editions of Brahms' three piano sonatas. Sonata (C Dur) für das Pianoforte .... Joseph Joachim zugeeignet, Op.1 (Leipzig, Breitkopf...

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Lot n° 38

GANCE Abel (1889-1981). About...

GANCE Abel (1889-1981). About 300 L.A.S., 1954-1979, to Nelly KAPLAN; about 400 pages in various formats, mostly in-4, in red or blue ballpoint pen, more rarely in pencil. Important love and artistic correspondence from the filmmaker to Nelly Kaplan,...

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Lot n° 39

gounod Charles (1818-1893). autograph...

gounod Charles (1818-1893). autograph musical manuscript, 37 hymns and motets, ca. 1843-1846; oblong notebook, small in-4, 1-33 leaves, mostly double-sided, plus blank ff., contemporary black basane binding, gilt and cold filleting on boards, title on...

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Lot n° 40

gounod Charles (1818-1893). autograph...

gounod Charles (1818-1893). autograph musical manuscript signed "Ch. Gounod", Marguerite à l'église (Scène de Faust). (Reduced four-handed accompaniment), 1849; title and 26 folio pages (34.5 x 26.5 cm), in one volume in contemporary red demichagrin...

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Lot n° 41

gounod Charles (1818-1893). MUSICAL...

gounod Charles (1818-1893). MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT autograph "Ch. Gounod", Suite concertante en quatre parties pour piano-pédalier et orchestre (1886); one large folio volume of 1 leaf-133 pages, bound in garnet cloth. Orchestral score of this rare work...

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Lot n° 42

gounod Charles (1818-1893). MUSICAL...

gounod Charles (1818-1893). MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT autograph signed " Ch. Gounod ", Suite concertante en 4 parties pour piano-pédalier et orchestre, arrangement for piano-pédalier and piano (1886); 1 title leaf and 32 pages in-fol. bound in a half garnet...

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Lot n° 43

gounod Charles (1818-1893). 27...

gounod Charles (1818-1893). 27 autograph MANUSCRITS; about 550 pages in-4 or in-fol. Very important set of theological and religious writings. 1844-1847. Voluminous dossier of works, when Gounod was thinking of becoming a priest; one is signed as an...

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Lot n° 44

GOUNOD Charles. His academician's...

GOUNOD Charles. His academician's uniform, 1866. Gounod was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts on May 19, 1866. This academician's uniform includes: the pants (embroidered along the seams); the embroidered frock coat; a white vest; and the bicorn...

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Lot n° 45

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). L.A.S....

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). L.A.S. "Reynaldo", Monte-Carlo February 1902, to Mademoiselle Suzette; 6 pages in-8 (small cracks). Very beautiful letter about Massenet's Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (premiered in Monaco on February 18, 1902). He pays tribute...

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Lot n° 46

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). Autograph...

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). Autograph musical manuscript, Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este (1907) ; 85 pages in-fol. in titled folder. Orchestral score of Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, a delightful masterpiece. This delightful suite for wind instruments, percussion,...

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Lot n° 47

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). autograph...

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). autograph musical manuscript, La Fête chez Thérèse, (1910); 200 and 387 pages in-fol. (36 x 27.5 cm). Important orchestral score of Reynaldo Hahn's first ballet music, for the Paris Opera. La Fête chez Thérèse, a ballet-pantomime...

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Lot n° 48

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). AUTOGRAPHIC...

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). AUTOGRAPHIC MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT, Nausicaa (1919); ca. 110 and 440 pages in-fol. Manuscript of this opera in its two versions: voice and piano, and orchestral score. This opera in 2 acts, on a libretto by René Fauchois (the...

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Lot n° 49

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). AUTOGRAPHIC...

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). AUTOGRAPHIC MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT, La Colombe de Bouddha, 1921; one 146-page folio volume, bound in black cloth (worn binding). Orchestral score for this one-act opera. La Colombe de Bouddha, a "Japanese lyrical tale in one...

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Lot n° 50

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). Partly...

HAHN Reynaldo (1874-1947). Partly autograph MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT, Mozart (1925); one volume in-folio of 39-245 pages mounted on tabs, bound in half black cloth with corners (binding worn, some leaves chipped with a few tears; publisher's stamps). Complete...

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