RENOIR (Auguste ). Autograph letter signed to... Lot 47

RENOIR (Auguste ). Autograph letter signed to his "dear A.". A. » [most likely Albert Andre]. S.l., April 4, 1899. 1 p. in-8, 2 small angular lacks without affecting the text. "I don't know what to tell you except that you are very kind to think of me. I am neither good nor bad, or rather one day bad another less. In short, NOON HAS NOT SUCCESSFULLY HAPPENED TO ME THIS TIME. Perhaps I would have been sicker in Paris, too? Anyway, I'm going back to Paris next week. My wife sends her best regards to you, and many things to you from me (as a woman). Very affectionately... "A great friend of Auguste Renoir, the painter Albert André had become friends with him around 1895. It was at Renoir's insistence that in 1917 he agreed to become curator of the Musée de Bagnols-sur-Cèze, the first provincial institution devoted to modern art. In 1919, he published a monograph devoted to Auguste Renoir, which he considered to be accurate.