Émile-Antoine BOURDELLE. Lot n° 3

L. A. S., [circa 1920], to a friend [Lucien Vogel, director of Feuillets d'art ?] ; 2 pages in-8 (slightly cropped at the top). "I would like to know which colour plates will be used in the 3rd fascicle and which in the 4th in order to be able to harmonise with them, the other plates in bistre or black to be chosen. I say in bistre in case I could establish four for that tone, as a substitute for the black tone. I have talked about this with Sant Andréa, who is willing to use four at a time. He also agrees: that we print the verse pieces in antique dark red. Red almost black. Not light red! Can you pass for us to hold well in the rational composition of the future our we will make a lot of pictures " . On the back: "We should give one of the pastels of the girls. For its reproduction in colors large out of text. I say big because we made the reproduction of the Beethoven painting too small "...