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FRENCH ARTISTS -- 19th/20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters signed by artists, architects and illustrators including Eugène BOUDIN (to a friend, Paris, 21 February [18]75, commiserating on the illness of a member of his family and offering advice including taking 'fortifiants', 'bouillon' and Bordeaux wine, 3 pages, 8vo (waterstains)); Félix VALLOTTON (to an unidentified correspondent, Honfleur, 26 July 1912, 'La peinture comme toute chose a sa période de jeunesse, son plein eclat, sa vieillesse et sa mort', and commenting on art generally, 2½ pages, 8vo ); Théodore ROUSSEAU (autograph letter to 'Monsieur' [an unidentified patron or critic?], n.p., n.d., announcing an exhibition of his paintings and studies and asking for his influential support); Maurice UTRILLO (autograph letter to his wife Lucie Valore Utrillo, a painter, Angoulême, 12 November 1930, 'Je travaille comme je peux à ma peinture, enfin pour le mieux...'); others by Maurice LELOIR (to a friend, including 8 small caricatures in pen and ink, 3 pages, 8vo ); Alfred Philippe ROLL (to an unidentified correspondent, sending photographs illustrating the lives of workers); Judith PENTHIER (two autograph letters signed to 'Mignonne', n.p. [near Dieppe?], n.d., referring to [Albert] MOUILLON; the second letter written on the verso of a sketch in pen and ink of a coastal scene including a small building with a figure inside sketching or writing, 95 x 164mm (window-mounted); Georges HAUSSMANN (to a colleague, referring to his election campaign [when prefect of the Seine]); Antoine HÉBERT (to Mr Vauxcelles, appreciating his article on contemporary art); and HANSI, i.e. Jean Jacques Waltz (to Edouard Soulié, on being awarded the Légion d'Honneur and mentioning his work for the museum of Colmar, 1932; and an autograph note on a card illustrated with a self-portrait and a child holding a tricolor bouquet, 'mon image de la Libération' (1946) and a printed item); Albert GLEIZES (autograph manuscript article signed, 'Art mural, Art sacré', [after 1946], on the revival of interest in mural art, attributing it to the influence of exhibitions before 1939); Penthier encourages 'Mignonne' to be reconciled with [the painter Alfred Mouillon]: 'Mouillon prospère. L'état a acheté son tableau ... Quel beau métier que la peinture ... Je crois d'ailleurs qu'il meurt d'envie qu'on le force à se réconcilier avec vous'. Alfred Mouillon (1832-1886) painted near Dieppe and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1864. (13)
FRENCH ARTISTS -- 19th/20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters signed by artists, architects and illustrators including Eugène BOUDIN (to a friend, Paris, 21 February [18]75, commiserating on the illness of a member of his family and offering advice including taking 'fortifiants', 'bouillon' and Bordeaux wine, 3 pages, 8vo (waterstains)); Félix VALLOTTON (to an unidentified correspondent, Honfleur, 26 July 1912, 'La peinture comme toute chose a sa période de jeunesse, son plein eclat, sa vieillesse et sa mort', and commenting on art generally, 2½ pages, 8vo ); Théodore ROUSSEAU (autograph letter to 'Monsieur' [an unidentified patron or critic?], n.p., n.d., announcing an exhibition of his paintings and studies and asking for his influential support); Maurice UTRILLO (autograph letter to his wife Lucie Valore Utrillo, a painter, Angoulême, 12 November 1930, 'Je travaille comme je peux à ma peinture, enfin pour le mieux...'); others by Maurice LELOIR (to a friend, including 8 small caricatures in pen and ink, 3 pages, 8vo ); Alfred Philippe ROLL (to an unidentified correspondent, sending photographs illustrating the lives of workers); Judith PENTHIER (two autograph letters signed to 'Mignonne', n.p. [near Dieppe?], n.d., referring to [Albert] MOUILLON; the second letter written on the verso of a sketch in pen and ink of a coastal scene including a small building with a figure inside sketching or writing, 95 x 164mm (window-mounted); Georges HAUSSMANN (to a colleague, referring to his election campaign [when prefect of the Seine]); Antoine HÉBERT (to Mr Vauxcelles, appreciating his article on contemporary art); and HANSI, i.e. Jean Jacques Waltz (to Edouard Soulié, on being awarded the Légion d'Honneur and mentioning his work for the museum of Colmar, 1932; and an autograph note on a card illustrated with a self-portrait and a child holding a tricolor bouquet, 'mon image de la Libération' (1946) and a printed item); Albert GLEIZES (autograph manuscript article signed, 'Art mural, Art sacré', [after 1946], on the revival of interest in mural art, attributing it to the influence of exhibitions before 1939); Penthier encourages 'Mignonne' to be reconciled with [the painter Alfred Mouillon]: 'Mouillon prospère. L'état a acheté son tableau ... Quel beau métier que la peinture ... Je crois d'ailleurs qu'il meurt d'envie qu'on le force à se réconcilier avec vous'. Alfred Mouillon (1832-1886) painted near Dieppe and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1864. (13)