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Francesco Maria Guardabassi
Family Memories - Autograph by Francesco Maria Guardabassi - 1944

1944

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Collect this unique Family Memories - Autograph Letter Signed by Francesco Maria Guardabassi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Santa Barbara, September 26th 1944. One page, four-sided, on light blue colored paper, in 8°, in English. On leterhead paper "Woodstock Pride's crossing - Massachusetts". Excellent conditions, usual folds. Perfectly readable, including original envelope. Confidential Letter concerning family memories between the Italian painter of the Risorgimento, F. Maria Guardabassi (Umbertide, Perugia 1867 - Palm Beach, Florida, 1952), owner of the Villa La Torre Monaldi in Perugia, attended by the young Countess Pecci. "You are too young to remember me in Perugia, my native town, when you were a very little girl and me allready a young man aand a great lover of art and music". This autograph letter with a nostalgic beginning, continues with an apology of the Pecci family name. Indeed the prestige of the family grew at the end of the nineteenth century, when Cardinal Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci ascended to the papal throne with the name of Leo XIII. Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Better known as Mimì Pecci-Blunt , The Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel.
  • Creator:
    Francesco Maria Guardabassi
  • Creation Year:
    1944
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 4.93 in (12.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1124881stDibs: LU65037682272

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