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Auction archive: Lot number 453

GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903) The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Geo...

Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$375
Auction archive: Lot number 453

GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903) The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Geo...

Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$375
Beschreibung:

GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). The Letters of Paul Gauguin to George Daniel de Monfreid . Translated by Ruth Pielkovo. Foreword by Frederick O'Brien. London: William Heinemann, 1923.
GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). The Letters of Paul Gauguin to George Daniel de Monfreid . Translated by Ruth Pielkovo. Foreword by Frederick O'Brien. London: William Heinemann, 1923. 8 o . Frontispiece and plates. Original cloth-backed boards (worn). Provenance : Grace Moore (1898-1947), American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (bookplate, pencil note on half-title: "To Grace from GB"). FIRST EDITION, WITH A LETTER BY DE MONFREID mounted on the front pastedown: to "Cher Monsieur," Pyrénnées, 23 August 1923. 4to, lined paper . Mentioning seeing the recipient in Tahiti "et des souvenirs de mon ami Gauguin que vous avez pu récolter." He regrets that he will not be able to see the recipient when he comes to Paris, as he will be traveling to Abyssinia. See lot 448 for Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men inscribed to Grace Moore.

Auction archive: Lot number 453
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
3 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). The Letters of Paul Gauguin to George Daniel de Monfreid . Translated by Ruth Pielkovo. Foreword by Frederick O'Brien. London: William Heinemann, 1923.
GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). The Letters of Paul Gauguin to George Daniel de Monfreid . Translated by Ruth Pielkovo. Foreword by Frederick O'Brien. London: William Heinemann, 1923. 8 o . Frontispiece and plates. Original cloth-backed boards (worn). Provenance : Grace Moore (1898-1947), American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (bookplate, pencil note on half-title: "To Grace from GB"). FIRST EDITION, WITH A LETTER BY DE MONFREID mounted on the front pastedown: to "Cher Monsieur," Pyrénnées, 23 August 1923. 4to, lined paper . Mentioning seeing the recipient in Tahiti "et des souvenirs de mon ami Gauguin que vous avez pu récolter." He regrets that he will not be able to see the recipient when he comes to Paris, as he will be traveling to Abyssinia. See lot 448 for Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men inscribed to Grace Moore.

Auction archive: Lot number 453
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
3 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
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