Frédéric BAZILLE (1841-1970) Lot n° 35

Frederic BAZILLE (1841-1970) L.A.S (Tuesday (1865- 1866) to his mother); 2 pages in-fol, (good condition). Talks about his painting and an unpublished picture. Tells of Courbet's compliments about this painting. "I work a lot from morning to night. My painting is two meters in one direction, and 1m50 in the other, it is very large as you see, there is much to do, my two characters are half natural size and give me much trouble. One of my friends posed for the young man half lying on a sofa listening to the piano, it is almost finished. What is horribly difficult is the woman, there is a green satin dress, which I have hired, and a blonde head, which I am afraid I will not do as well as I can, though Courbet complimented me on it when it was begun." * All correspondence will be included in the supplement to the expanded catalogue raisonné on bazille-catalogue.com by Monsieur Michel Schulman.